"A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others."
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"Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means."
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"Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly."
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"Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers."
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"The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence."
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"Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them."
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"Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment."
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"I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way."
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"I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever."
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"Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life."
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"We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world."
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"Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty."
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"Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin."
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"Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events."
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"Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words."
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"Poverty is the greatest violence."
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"Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves."
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"I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed."
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"The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children."
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"Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is."
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