Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Social peace requires reciprocity.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

If you want peace, you have to accept the other. Talk to the other, and accept that they have rights.

People ask, 'How do you work with the other side?' Well, I start by not saying bad things about them.

Talk to your enemies; sometimes ignorance comes from a lack of understanding.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Animosity is not a policy.

I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.