Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about War - Page 2

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

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

War, Should, Commonwealth

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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.

Mahatma Gandhi

Military, War, Axes

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

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Agreement, Opponents

Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Thought of Mahatma Gandhi: A Digest”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

War, World, Strive

Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Violence, Substitutes

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.370, Oxford University Press

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

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Government, Pretension

Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Mind, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.292, Vintage

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Law, Done

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Believe, I Believe

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.118, Courier Corporation

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Littles, Bigs

Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Democracy, Allies

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

War knows no law except that of might.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Law, Might

Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Trying, Records

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, People, Matter

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Mahabharata, Futility

Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.17, North Atlantic Books

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, War, Rely Upon

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Heart, Men

Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religious, War, Japan

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

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Mean, Knives

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

Mahatma Gandhi

War, Practice, Giving

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