"The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom."
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"The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs."
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"For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from."
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"The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification."
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"Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa."
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"None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live."
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"To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction."
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"The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up."
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"It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed."
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"The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence."
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"By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls."
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"To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up."
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"The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form."
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"We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him."
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"Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion."
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"Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin."
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"Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled."
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"Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul."
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"Nonviolence is impossible without humility."
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"I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest."
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