Gahndi
Freedom is not worth haveing if it does not connote freedom to err.
Honesty is incompatable with amassing a large fortune.
To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument os action.
I have known many meat-eaters to be far more non-violent than vegetarians.
If non-violence is the law of out being, then the future is with women.
The slave clings to his chains and he must have them struck from him.
There is enough for the needy, but not for the greedy.
All fear is a sign of want of faith. Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For manlives freely ouly by his own readiness to die.
There is more to life than increasing it's speed.
No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and long face go ill together.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless or, which is the samething, corrupt.
The golden rule of conduct...is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragments and from different angles of vision. Conscience is not the same thing for all. Whilst, therefor, it is a good guide for individual conduct, imposition of that conduct upon all will
be an insufferable interference with everybody’s freedom of conscience.
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
My Non-cooperation is with methods and systems, never with men.
Freedom received through the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such
effort is withdrawn.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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