Inspiration for Difficult Times -- How to turn war into peace.

"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it?
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"Peace is its own reward."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"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."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"Power is of two kinds.
One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man."

Mohandas Gandhi

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible."

~ Mohandas Gandhi


"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

~ Mohandas Gandhi