Mahatma Gandhi Military Quotes

• Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Police, Democracy

• A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Warfare, Poverty

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.285, Vintage

• No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, People, Police

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.401, Tara Publishing

• Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Power, Should Have

• All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Military, India

• 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?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, India, Would Be

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• 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

  Military, Real, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, War, Axes

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