"Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow."
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"The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent."
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"Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold."
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"He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts."
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"My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive."
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"My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists."
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"Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people."
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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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"That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society."
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"Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home."
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"Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training."
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"We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence."
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"Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life."
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"The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active."
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"Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced."
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"Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence."
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"Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence."
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"An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers."
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"If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence."
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"If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase."
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