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"Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training."
"The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active."
"Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced."
"Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world."
"Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues."
"My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane."
"Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth."
"No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it."
"The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy."
"Nonviolence requires great patience."
"Nonviolence is the summit of bravery."
"True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence."
"Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy."
"Nonviolence is impossible without humility."
"Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence."
"Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed."
"I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses."
"It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it."
"Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact."