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Peace Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

114 Peace quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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War is degrading, so the quotes urge love and tolerance before any freedom can be claimed. They stress that real peace starts with children and with prayer, because without inner calm the world stays blind to compassion. The collection calls for non‑violent action and honest effort to build honorable peace.

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“Morality is a contraband in war.”

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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

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The English peace is the peace of the grave.

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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

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Peace is its own reward.

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Morality is contraband in war.

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It Is possible to live in peace.

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Without prayer there is no inward peace.

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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

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If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

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“If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.”

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

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I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”

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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

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Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their…

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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence…

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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

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War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

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My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your…

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We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more…

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The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer…

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A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that…

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Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion,…

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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength…

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It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and…

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Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,…

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A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a…

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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war,…

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It is the law of love that rules mankind.

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There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

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Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

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Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

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The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

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The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.