"When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people."
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"As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books."
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"If you do what you enjoy doing you'll never have to work hard."
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"Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty."
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"Priorities lie in your actions"
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"We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence."
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"It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good"
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"The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else."
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"Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been."
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"Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa."
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"The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa."
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"A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition."
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"Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals."
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"I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind."
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"Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used."
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"God is not in strength but in truth."
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"Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just."
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"A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man"
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"If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love"
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"Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love."
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