"A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha."
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"When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it."
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"The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary."
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"I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity."
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"A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction."
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"Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them."
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"We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder."
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"The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English."
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"Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it."
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"You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome."
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"Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures."
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"Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective."
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"What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?"
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"If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may."
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"There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it."
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"Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff."
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"I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence."
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"At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation."
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"The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification."
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"Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve."
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