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"In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file."
"I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians."
"Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane."
"My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody."
"God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife."
"If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp."
"Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members."
"My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults."
"I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are."
"Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation."
"I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world."
"When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war."
"Nations are born out of travail and suffering"
"The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up."
"There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road."
"The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth."
"Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love."
"In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness."
"My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected."
"I am, and have been for years, a confirmed anti-vaccinationist...I have not the least doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process that is harmful in the end."