Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

Courage without compassion can wreak havoc on our civilization.

Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed.

We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations—acting individually or in concert—will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

I was never a weapons person, you're a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

Be just, and fear not.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.