"Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?"
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"If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done."
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"We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith."
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"It is the law of love that rules mankind."
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"Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation."
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"Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances."
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"The law of love knows no bounds of space or time."
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"War knows no law except that of might."
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"Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love."
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""All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense."
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"I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields."
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"The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves."
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"God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision."
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"There are unjust laws as there are unjust men."
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"We do not know the laws of God, nor their working."
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"Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle."
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"A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow."
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"Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force."
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"... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder."
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"Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute."
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