Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

I don't support violence, period.

I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

If mankind hated war, there would be millions of us and only two soldiers.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

Repel force by force

If a man smites you on one cheek, smash him on the other.

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.

There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force.

Violence doesn't interest me very much.

He who turns the other cheek will get hit with the other fist.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.