Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

What’s so civil about war anyway?

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Violence and war lead only to death.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

One war only breeds another.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.