War Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is contraband in war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes us all blind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

— Mahatma Gandhi

War knows no law except that of might.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war]…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith…

— Mahatma Gandhi

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Morality is a contraband in war.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

— Mahatma Gandhi

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all…

— Mahatma Gandhi

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi