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"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent."
"A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit."
"Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light."
"A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification."
"Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?"
"It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural."
"Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam."
"Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself."
"If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world."
"Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister."
"Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him."
"Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence."
"But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep."
"There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case."
"I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause."
"Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse."
"No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy."
"May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition."
"Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal."
"Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil."