"Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes."
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"When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it."
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"There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations."
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"The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience."
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"Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law."
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"Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle."
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"If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts."
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"The Law which governs all life is God."
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"The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name."
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"The Law and the Lawgiver are one."
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"Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it."
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"What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom."
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"A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding."
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"A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong."
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"The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit."
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"As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins."
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"Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies."
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"God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself."
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"That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach."
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"Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law."
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