People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
