Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Peace - Page 2

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

Mahatma Gandhi

Christian, Peace, Biblical

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Peace, Thoughtful

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Reputation, Crank

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.163, A&C Black

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Change, Peace

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wise, Fake People, Peace

Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Children, Real

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, God, Peace

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Peace, Clever

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Peace, Truth

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

Peace, Nature, Reflection

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, War, Congratulations

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

Mahatma Gandhi (1925). “Young India”

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Sobriety, Passive Aggressive

Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Views, Shoes

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, Odds, Justice

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Peace, War

Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Mahatma Gandhi

Friendship, Peace, True Friend

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, War, Blood

Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Peace, Violence

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Kindness, Sacrifice

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Lying, Men

"The Doctrine Of The Sword". Young India, www.mkgandhi.org. August 11, 1920.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Mahatma Gandhi

Courage, Peace, Sacrifice

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Courage, Peace, Believe

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.30, Penguin Books India

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, Kindness, Humility

Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

Courage, Peace, Men

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black