Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

In violence, we forget who we are.

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

I have no enemies, father. I have had them all shot.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

Violence always leads to more violence…. To the conqueror comes a conqueror.

If the oppressor uses peaceful means, the oppressed will never resort to violence. But if the oppressor uses violence, then the oppressed have no other alternative than violence—to retaliate with similar forms.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Violence is a holy and historically progressive force.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

When somebody is determined to whup your ass, without regard to any concern for what is fair, you must recognize that the only alternative is to whup his ass by whatever means or methods are available.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.