Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

You are giving them a sword if you say you will use a sword yourself.

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.

Unless you’re prepared to use force, it’s very difficult to deal with a person who understands only force.

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

[On appeasement:] If you let a bully come into your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

The Indians were not the aggressors, but I well knew that when the Indians and the whites started fighting, the Indians would never make peace until whipped, and therefore necessity compelled me to whip them.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

There is a great danger that you will try to solve political problems through military action.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions ... but by iron and blood.

War may well be the worst way imaginable to create larger, more peaceful societies, but the depressing fact is that it is pretty much the only way.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.

Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.

I get angry when people push people around.

I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.