"Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations."
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"Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?"
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"I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour."
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"The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility."
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"People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war."
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"India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War."
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"If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done."
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"Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas."
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"In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt."
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"It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war."
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"War knows no law except that of might."
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"The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom."
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"History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history."
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"You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves."
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"I believe all war to be wholly wrong."
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"No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing."
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"I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred."
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"Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place."
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"So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see."
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"I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice."
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