"The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom."
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"The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs."
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"For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from."
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"Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa."
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"None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live."
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"The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up."
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"It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed."
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"The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence."
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"By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls."
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"To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up."
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"The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form."
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"We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him."
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"Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion."
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"When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence"
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"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence."
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"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."
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"Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred."
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"If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence."
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"Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence."
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"The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence."
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