Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and whose legacy would later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The...

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

—Mahatma Gandhi

I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. That informing power of spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

—Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

—John Stuart Mill

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

—Jeannette Rankin

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

—Georges Clemenceau

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

—Georges Clemenceau