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“Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.”

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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

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I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of…

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They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

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When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

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“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”

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