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- I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives.…
- Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have…
- Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's…
- I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists,…
- I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been…
- Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied,…
- ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must…
- Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its…
- I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East…
- All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
- I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never…
- I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing…
- We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any…
- I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what…
- In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions…
- In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately…
- Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
- Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have…
- It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
- 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.
- But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the…
- I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
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