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"Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience."
"We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life."
"Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world."
"A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society."
"Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence."
"Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues."
"Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice."
"Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are."
"A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone."
"Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it."
"What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom."
"The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi."
"Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj."
"Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within."
"I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha."
"A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will."
"Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience."
"Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it."
"Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul."
"We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow."