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- Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
- Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of…
- The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
- If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when…
- Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown…
- If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
- If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long…
- That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
- Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength,…
- 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.…
- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.
- Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
- Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows…
- One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
- Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
- The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is…
- 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…
- Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.
- Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect…
- An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should…
- Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
- He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
- However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
- Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will…
- Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.
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