"To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa."
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"What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength."
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"It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us."
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"My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence."
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"Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence."
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"What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule."
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"The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence."
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"Nothing enduring can be built on violence."
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"When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you."
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"Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British."
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"That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence."
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"We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence."
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"Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness"
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"True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence."
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"Violence is the fear to other's ideals."
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"It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war."
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"When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do."
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"The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind."
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"Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?"
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"Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence."
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