Top 85 Peace Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
#1. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. -Mahatma Gandhi
Kenneth Eade
#2. Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God. The endeavour to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realization.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.
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#6. The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
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#7. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.
Kevin Martin
#8. All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. 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
#12. I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.
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#13. I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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#14. Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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#15. I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.
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#17. I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.
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#18. God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
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#19. Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
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#20. If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
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#21. There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.
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#23. It is my conviction that nothing enduring
can be built on violence.
The only safe way to overcome an enemy
is to make of that enemy a friend.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, I salute every individual who honors the core values of his legacy, making him proud of humanity.
Widad Akreyi
#26. The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my
mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.
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#28. Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.
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#29. How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
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#30. It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.
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#31. Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
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#32. The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
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#34. If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
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#36. 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.
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#37. I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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#39. Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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#40. The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Peace is neither taken nor given, only recognized within.
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#45. Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
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#47. Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
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#48. India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
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#49. My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
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#50. I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.
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#51. Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. - MAHATMA GANDHI
Pema Chodron
#52. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. Be the change which you want to happen to the world
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#55. There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize that home really lies in the eternal peace, dormant or conscious, that dwells in each human heart ... Quote from "Ms. Quixote Goes Country", a truthful novel.
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#58. If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
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#64. 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
#65. The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
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#66. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
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#70. Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. 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.
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#73. 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
#74. I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
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#76. Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
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#77. 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
#80. 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.
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#82. The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
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#83. Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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#84. Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
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#85. The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each
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