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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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.Mahatma Gandhi
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.
Mahatma Gandhi
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
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