We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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