Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is contraband in war.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is its own reward.

Mahatma Gandhi

It Is possible to live in peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Freya Stark

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

Freya Stark

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

Francois Hollande

It will be very important for us to continue to keep up the necessary pressure, the necessary vigilance, for there to be peace in Ukraine, our trust in the goodwill of President (Vladimir) Putin is limited. It is why we have to maintain our decision about sanctions.