Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

The root of war is fear.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

War will exist as long as there's a food chain.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.