Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

You don't kill your way to peace.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.