Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

I did not want bloodshed. I did not want my people killed. I did not want anybody killed....I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more stable.

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

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

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

I think violence can never be justified.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

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

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

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?