Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

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

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Anybody who resorts to violence will have no friends in the United States.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.

Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow.

There is a time for all things—a time to preach, and a time to fight, and now is the time to fight.

Unfortunately, this country requires body bags before it will act...

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard.

Action is a universal language, so everyone understands a punch and a kick.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.