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Much That We Hug Today As Knowledge Is Ignorance Pure And Simple. It Makes The Mind Wander And Even Reduces It To A Vacuity.

Renunciation Is The Central Sun, Round Which Devotion, Knowledge And The Rest Revolve Like Planets.

A Satyagrahi Has Infinite Patience, Abundant Faith In Others, And Ample Hope.

If I Arrogate To Myself The Exclusive Title Of Being In The Right, I Usurp The Function Of The Deity.

I Have Made The World's Faith In God My Own And As My Faith Is Effaceable, I Regard That Faith As Amounting To Experience.

The Essence Of All Religions Is One. Only Their Approaches Are Different.

Some Form Of Common Worship And A Common Place Of Worship Appear To Be A Human Necessity.

Nature Cure Is So Simple Easy And Cheap.....this System Of Treatment Should Be Used.

Service Is Not Possible Unless It Is Rooted In Love Orahimsa.

If You Christians Acted More Like Your Christ, The World Would Be A Better Place.

For Me Every Ruler Is Alien That Defies Public Opinion.

Life Is One Indivisible Whole.

If There Ever Is To Be A Republic Of Every Village In India, Then I Claim Verity For My Picture In Which The Last Is Equal To The First Or, In Other Words, No One Is To Be The First And None The Last.

The Greatest Lessons In Life, If We Would But Stoop And Humble Ourselves, We Would Learn Not From The Grown-up Learned Men, But From The So-called Ignorant Children.

The Fragrance Of Nonviolence Was Never Sweeter Than It Was Today Amidst The Stink Of Violence Of The Most Cowardly Type That Was Being Displayed In The Cities Of India.

Perfection Is The Exclusive Attribute Of God, And It Is Indescribable, Untranslatable. I Do Believe That It Is Possible For Human Beings To Become Perfect, Even As God Is Perfect. It Is Necessary For All Of Us To Aspire After That Perfection But When That Blessed State Is Attained, It Become Indescribable, Indefinable.

Ahimsa Magnifies One's Own Defects, And Minimizes Those Of The Opponent. It Regards The Mole In One's Own Eye As A Beam And The Beam In The Opponent's Eye As A Mole.

For Thousands To Do To Death A Few Hundreds Is No Bravery. It Is Worse Than Cowardice. It Is Unworthy Of Nationalism, Of Any Religion.

I Have Repeatedly Stated That Satyagraha Never Fails And That One Perfect Satyagrahi Is Enough To Vindicate Truth.

I Should Wish To Die If A Man Who Is Impure Should Parade His Purity In Front Of Me.

Capital Exploits The Labour Of A Few To Multiply Itself.

All Satyagraha And Fasting Is A Species Of Tyaga. It Depends For Its Effects Upon An Expression Of Wholesome Public Opinion Shorn Of All Bitterness.

In Our Progress Towards The Goal, We Ever See More And More Enchanting Scenery.

Ahimsa Was Preached To Man When He Was In Full Vigor Of Life And Able To Look His Adversaries Straight In The Face.

A Literal Interpretation Of The Gita Lands One In A Sea Of Contradictions.

For Me To Dominate The Congress In Spite Of These Fundamental Differences Is Almost A Species Of Violence Which I Must Refrain From.

A Religion That Takes No Account Of Practical Affairs And Does Not Help To Solve Them Is No Religion.

Exploitation And Domination Of One Nation Over Another Can Have No Place In A World Striving To Put An End To All War.

Ravana Was A Rakshasa But This Rakshasi Of Untouchability Is Even More Terrible Than Ravana.

The Need Of The Moment Is Not One Religion, But Mutual Respect And Tolerance Of The Devotees Of The Different Religions.

A Free India Will Throw All Her Weight In Favour Of World Disarmament And Should Herself Be Prepared To Give A Lead In This.

Nonviolence To Be A Creed Has To Be All-pervasive.

If One Has No Affection For A Person Or A System, One Should Feel Free To Give The Fullest Expression To His Disaffection So Long As He Does Not Contemplate, Promote, Or Incite Violence.

To Run Away From Danger, Instead Of Facing It, Is To Deny One's Faith In Man And God, Even One's Own Self. It Were Better For One To Drown Oneself Than Live To Declare Such Bankruptcy Of Faith.

The Greatness Of A Person Lies In His Heart, Not In His Head; That Is Intellect.

A Fear-stricken Person Can Never Know God, And One Who Knows God Will Never Fear A Mortal Man.

How Do You Know If The Next Act You Are About To Do Is The Right One Or The Wrong One? Consider The Face Of The Poorest And Most Vulnerable Human Being That You Have Ever Chanced Upon, And Ask Yourself If The Act That You Contemplate Will Be Of Benefit To That Person; And If It Will Be, It's The Right Thing To Do, And If Not, Rethink It.

I Have Worshipped Woman As The Living Embodiment Of The Spirit Of Service And Sacrifice.

For A Bowl Of Water Give A Goodly Meal; For A Kindly Greeting Bow Thou Down With Zeal; For A Simple Penny Pay Thou Back With Gold; If Thy Life Be Rescued, Life Do Not Withhold. Thus The Words And Actions Of The Wise Regard; Every Little Service Tenfold They Reward. But The Truly Noble Know All Men As One, And Return With Gladness Good For Evil Done.

"be The Change You Want To See In The World"...and, If You Can't Be That Change, Then Either Get Out Of The Way Of The Person Who Wants To Be That Change Or Support The Individual With Your Financial Resources.

The English Peace Is The Peace Of The Grave.

Worship Or Prayer Is Not To Be Performed With The Lips, But With The Heart.

Keep My Word Positive. Words Become My Behaviors. Keep My Behaviors Positive. Behaviors Become My Habits. Keep My Habits Positive. Habits Become My Values. Keep My Values Positive. Values Become My Destiny.

My Heart Rebels Against Any Foreigner Imposing On My Country The Peace Which Is Here Called Pax-britannica.

Satyagraha Has Been Designed As An Effective Substitute For Violence.

The Snakes Have Their Place In The Agricultural Economy Of The Village, But Our Villagers Do Not Seem Realize It.

Civil Disobedience Does Not Admit Of Any Violence Or Countenancing Of Violence Directly Or Indirectly.

Civil Disobedience

Today The Cities Dominate And Drain The Villages So That They Are Crumbling To Ruin.

Hinduism Would Not Have Been Much Of A Religion If Rama Had Not Steeled His Heart Against Every Temptation.

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.

There Is No God Higher Than Truth.

A Civilization Based On Nonviolence Must Be Different From That Organized For Violence.

To Slight A Single Human Being, Is To Slight Those Divine Powers And Thus To Harm Not Only That Being But With Him, The Whole World.

Hinduism Is A Relentless Pursuit Of Truth. "truth Is God" And If Today It Has Become Moribund, Inactive, Irresponsive To Growth, It Is Because We Are Fatigued; And As Soon As The Fatigue Is Over, Hinduism Will Burst Upon The World With A Brilliance Perhaps Unknown Before.

The Idol In The Temple Is Not God. But Since God Resides In Every Atom, He Resides In That Idol Too.

Literary Education Must Follow The Education Of The Hand -the One Gift That Distinguishes Man From Beast.

Capital As Such Is Not Evil; It Is Its Wrong Use That Is Evil. Capital In Some Form Or Other Will Always Be Needed.

In Times To Come People Will Not Judge Us By The Creed We Profess Or The Label We Wear Or The Slogans We Shout, But, By Our Work, Industry, Sacrifice, Honesty And Purity Of Character.

My Mission Is To Convert Every Indian, Every Englishman And Finally The World To Nonviolence For Regulating Mutual Relations, Whether Political, Economic, Social Or Religious.

Satyagraha As Conceived By Me Is A Science In The Making.

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.

Whatever May Be True Of The Other Modes Of Warfare, Insatyagraha It Has Been Held That The Causes For Failure Are To Be Sought Within.

I Have Known Only One Way Of Carrying On Missionary Work, Viz., By Personal Example And Discussion With Searchers For Knowledge.

It Will Profit You Nothing To Remember Old Wrongs And Nurse Old Enmities.

I Do Not Want To Live At The Cost Of The Life Even Of A Snake. I Should Let Him Bite Me To Death Rather Than Kill Him.

Forgiveness Is Choosing To Love.

Choosing To Love

I Would Like To Assure Those Who Would Serve Daridranarayana That There Is Music, Art, Economy And Joy In The Spinning Wheel.

Non-cooperation With Evil Is As Much A Duty As Is Cooperation With Good.

A Life Without Vows Is Like A Ship Without An Anchor Or Like An Edifice That Is Built On Sand Instead Of A Solid Rock.

Faith... Must Be Enforced By Reason... When Faith Becomes Blind It Dies.

It Is No Religion To Have For One's Wife A Girl Who Is Fit Only To Sit In One's Lap, It Is The Height Of Irreligion.

No Empire Intoxicated With The Red Wine Of Power And The Plunder Of Weaker Races Has Yet Lived Long In This World.

Mere Brave Speech Without Action Is Letting Off Useless Steam.

Life Will Not Be A Pyramid With The Apex Sustained By The Bottom, But An Oceanic Circle Whose Centre Will Be The Individual.

I Shall Content Myself With Merely Declaring My Firm Conviction That, For The Seeker Who Would Live In Fear Of God And Who Would See Him Face To Face, Restraint In Diet Both As To Quantity And Quality Is As Essential As Restraint In Thought And Speech.

I May Be A Despicable Person, But When Truth Speaks Through Me I Am Invincible.

Nanda Broke Down Every Barrier And Won His Way To Freedom Not By Brag, Not By Bluster, But By The Purest Form Of Self-suffering.

It Is My Firm Faith That Man Is By Nature Going Higher.

The Real Ornament Of Woman Is Her Character, Her Purity.

A Man Of God Never Strives After Untruth And Therefore He Can Never Lose Hope.

Let The First Act Of Every Morning Be To Make The Following Resolve For The Day: - I Shall Not Fear Anyone On Earth. - I Shall Fear Only God. - I Shall Not Bear Ill Will Toward Anyone. - I Shall Not Submit To Injustice From Anyone. - I Shall Conquer Untruth By Truth. And In Resisting Untruth, I Shall Put Up With All Suffering.

Of All The Black Crimes That Humanity Is Committing Against The Great Creation, Vivisection Is The Blackest.

To A True Artist Only That Face Is Beautiful Which, Quite Apart From Its Exterior, Shines With The Truth Within The Soul.

Is Not Labour, Like Learning, Its Own Reward?

Nothing Enduring Can Be Built On Violence.

The Art Of Producing Good Music From A Cultivated Voice Can Be Achieved By Many, But The Art Of Producing That Music From The Harmony Of A Pure Life Is Achieved Very Rarely.

With My Meager Knowledge Of My Own Religion I Do Not Want To Belong To Any Religious Body

It Is The Duty Of A Non-co-operator To Preach Disaffection Towards The Existing Order Of Things. Non-co-operators Are But Giving Disciplined Expression To A Nation's Outraged Feelings.

Nonviolence Means An Ocean Of Compassion. It Means Shedding From Us Every Trace Of Ill Will For Others. It Does Not Mean Abjectness Or Timidity, Or Fleeing In Fear. It Means, On The Contrary, Firmness Of Mind And Courage, A Resolute Spirit.

Woman Is, By Habit Or Nature, Queen Of The Household. She Is Not Designed To Organize On A Large Scale.

It Is The Law Of Love That Rules Mankind. Had Violence, I.e. Hate, Rules Us We Would Have Become Extinct Long Ago. And Yet, The Tragedy Of It Is That The So-called Civilised Men And Nations Conduct Themselves As If The Basis Of Society Was Violence.

The Spirit Of Democracy Is Not A Mechanical Thing To Be Adjusted By Abolition Of Forms. It Requires Change Of Heart.

The Sermon On The Mount...went Straight To My Heart. I Compared It With The Gita. My Young Mind Tried To Unify The Teaching Of The Gita, The `light Of Asia' And The Sermon On The Mount. That Renunciation Was The Highest Form Of Religion Appealed To Me Greatly.

Go For The Throat. If You Cant, Go For The Nads.

As Soon As We Become One With The Ocean In The Shape Of God, There Is No More Rest For Us, Nor Indeed Do We Need Rest Any Longer.

We Are The Makers Of Our Own State And...individuals Who Realize The Fact Need Not, Ought Not, To Wait For Collective Action.

To Believe In Something, And Not To Live It, Is Dishonest.

As Human Beings, Our Greatness Lies Not So Much In Being Able To Remake The World - That Is The Myth Of The Atomic Age - As In Being Able To Remake Ourselves.

What Kind Of Victory Is It When Someone Is Left Defeated? What Difference Does It Make To The Dead, The Orphans, And The Homeless, Whether The Mad Destruction Is Wrought Under The Name Of Totalitarianism Or The Holy Name Of Liberty And Democracy. What Is A War Criminal? Was Not War Itself A Crime Against God And Humanity, And, Therefore, Were Not All Those Who Sanctioned, Engineered And Conducted Wars, War Criminals? The Weak Can Never Forgive. Forgiveness Is The Attribute Of The Strong. Non-cooperation With Evil Is A Sacred Duty.

I Am Endeavouring To See God Through Service Of Humanity; For I Know That God Is Neither In Heaven, Nor Down Below, But In Everyone.

Nonviolent Action Without The Co-operation Of The Heart And The Head Cannot Produce The Intended Result.

I Have Been Practicing, With Scientific Precision, Nonviolence And Its Possibilities For An Unbroken Period Of Over Fifty Years.

Yajna Having Come To Us With Our Birth, We Are Debtors All Our Lives, And Thus For Ever Bound To Serve The Universe.

Legal Imposition Avoids The Necessity Of Honour Or Good Faith.

No Stone Should Be Left Unturned To Bring Home To The Family Members That Untouchability Is A Sin And A Blot On Hinduism.

God Is Always The Upholder Of Justice.

Man Is Not To Drown Himself In The Well Of The Shastras, But He Is To Dive In Their Broad Ocean And Bring Out Pearls.

I Have Had The Hardihood To Say That Swaraj Could Not Be Granted Even By God.

I Should Love To Satisfy All, If I Possibly Can; But In Trying To Satisfy All, I May Be Able To Satisfy None. I Have, Therefore, Arrived At The Conclusion That The Best Course Is To Satisfy One’s Own Conscience And Leave The World To Form Its Own Judgment, Favorable Or Otherwise.

This Belief In God Has To Be Based On Faith Which Transcends Reason.

The Reaction That A Ruthless Dictator Sets Up In Us Either That Of Awe Or Pity According Respectively As We React To Him Violently On Nonviolently.

A Scavenger Who Works In His Service Shares Equal Distinction With A King Who Uses His Gifts In His Name And Is A Mere Trustee.

To See Farther, You Must Climb Higher.

Faith Is Not Imparted Like Secular Subjects. It Is Given Through The Language Of The Heart.

If We Had The Atom Bomb, We Would Have Used It Against The British.

When There Is No Desire For Fruit, There Is Also No Temptation For Untruth Or Himsa.

Active Nonviolence Of The Brave Puts To Flight Thieves, Dacoits, Murderers, And Prepares An Army Of Volunteers Ready To Sacrifice Themselves In Quelling Riots, In Extinguishing Fires And Feuds, And So On.

Seek Ye First The Charkha And Its Concomitants And Everything Else Will Be Added Unto You.

Employers Ganging Up Against Workers Is Like Raising An Army Of Elephants Against Ants.

Means Are Not To Be Distinguished From Ends. If Violent Means Are Used, There Will Be Bad Results.

Manliness Consists Not In Bluff, Bravado Or Loneliness. It Consists In Daring To Do The Right Thing And Facing Consequences Whether It Is In Matters Social, Political Or Other. It Consists In Deeds Not Words.

Whether Humanity Will Consciously Follow The Law Of Love, I Do Not Know. But That Need Not Disturb Me. The Law Will Work Just As The Law Of Gravitation Works Whether We Accept It Or Not.

Law Of Attraction

Nonviolent Non-co-operators Can Only Succeed When They Have Succeeded In Attaining Control Over The Hooligans Of India.

We May Not Be God, But We Are Of God, Even As A Little Drop Of Water Is Of The Ocean.

The Main Purpose Of Life Is To Live Rightly, Think Rightly, Act Rightly. The Soul Must Languish When We Give All Our Thought To The Body.

The Krishna Of The Gita Is Perfection And Right Knowledge Personified, But The Picture Is Imaginary.

India's Coming Into Her Own Will Mean Every Nation Doing Likewise.

No Sophistry, No Jugglery In Figures Can Explain Away The Evidence That The Skeletons In Many Villages Present To The Naked Eye.

The Spirit Of Democracy Cannot Be Established In The Midst Of Terrorism, Whether Governmental Or Popular.

Democracies Have

Where There Are Millions Upon Millions Of Units Of Idle Labour, It Is No Use Thinking Of Labour-saving Devices.

For Me, Rama And Rahim Are One And The Same Deity. I Acknowledge No Other God But The One God Of Truth And Righteousness.

The Bible Is As Much A Book Of Religion With Me As The Gita And The Koran.

If Light Can Come Out Of Darkness, Then Alone Can Love Emerge From Hatred.

I Want For India Complete Independence In The Full English Sense Of That English Term.

Lovers Of Swaraj Cannot Rest Till A Solution Is Found Which Would Allay Mussalman Apprehensions And Yet Not Endanger Swaraj.

Surely Islam Has Nothing To Fear From Criticism Even If It Be Unreasonable.

Marriage Is Not An Act Of Services. It Is A Comfort Man Or Woman Seeks For Himself Or Herself.

The Seeker After Truth Should Be Humbler Than The Dust. The World Crushes The Dust Under Its Feet, But The Seeker After Truth Should So Humble Himself That Even The Dust Could Crush Him. Only Then, And Not Till Then, Will He Have A Glimpse Of Truth.

The Enemy Is Fear. We Think It Is Hate; But, It Is Fear.

But No One Has A Right To Coerce Others To Act According To His Own View Of Truth.

You Must Not Lose Faith In Humanity. Humanity Is An Ocean; If A Few Drops Of The Ocean Are Dirty, The Ocean Does Not Become Dirty.

Nonviolence Being The Mightiest Force In The World And Also The Most Elusive In Its Working, Demands The Greatest Exercise Of Faith.

Ahimsa Is The Eradication Of The Desire To Injure Or To Kill.

A Pacifism Which Can See The Cruelties Only Of Occasional Military Warfare And Is Blind To The Continuous Cruelties Of Our Social System Is Worthless.

Renunciation Means Absence Of Hankering After Fruit.

The Only Force At The Disposal Of Democracy Is That Of Public Opinion.

My Religion Teaches Me That I Should, By My Personal Conduct, Instill Into The Minds Of Those Who Might Hold Different Views The Conviction That Cow Killing Is A Sin.

True Knowledge Gives A Moral Standing And Moral Strength.

All Sins Are Committed In Secrecy. The Moment We Realize That God Witnesses Even Our Thoughts, We Shall Be Free.

What You Feel And How You React To Something Is Always Up To You. There May Be A "normal" Or A Common Way To React To Different Things. But That's Mostly Just All It Is.

If We Were Strong, Self-respecting And Not Susceptible To Frightfulness, The Foreign Rulers Would Have Been Powerless For Mischief.

Even As Wisdom Often Comes From The Mouths Of Babes, So Does It Often Come From The Mouths Of Old People. The Golden Rule Is To Test Everything In The Light Of Reason And Experience, No Matter From Where It Comes.

The Law Of Love Knows No Bounds Of Space Or Time.

Terrorism And Deception Are Weapons Not Of The Strong, But Of The Weak.

What Crimes, For Which We Condemn The Government As Satanic, Have Not We Been Guilty Of Towards Our Own Untouchable Brethren?

Just As One Must Learn The Art Of Killing In The Training For Violence, So One Must Learn The Art Of Dying In The Training For Nonviolence.

There Is No Fundamental Cleavage Between Hindus And Mussalmans. We Have Lived In The Same Land As Brothers For Generations And What Has Been Possible All These Years Will Certainly Be Possible In The Future.

My Swaraj Takes Note Of Bhangis, Dheds, Dublas And The Weakest Of The Weak, And Except The Spinning Wheel I Know No Other Thing Which Befriends All These.

Faith Is Like The Himalaya Mountains Which Cannot Possibly Change.

Those Who Are Lacking In Bhakti (devotion), Lacking In Faith, Are Ill Qualified To Interpret The Scriptures.

The Rich Cannot Accumulate Wealth Without The Co-operation Of The Poor In Society.

President Means Chief Servant

I Do Not Want My House To Be Rounded By Walls And My Windows To Be Closed To Other Cultures. I Wish To Become Familiar With The Culture Of Lands As Much As Possible But I Will Not Permit Them To Affect Me Or Shake Me From My Own Status.

Let Everyone Try And Find That As A Result Of Daily Prayer He Adds Something New To His Life, Something With Which Nothing Can Be Compared.

National Education To Be Truly National Must Reflect The National Condition For The Time Being.

Morality Is The Basis Of Things And Truth Is The Substance Of All Morality.

Nationalism, Like Virtue, Has Its Own Reward.

The Bomb-throwers Have Discredited The Cause Of Freedom, In Whose Name They Threw The Bombs.

Jealousy Does Not Wait For Reasons.

Truth Is My Religion And Ahimsa Is The Only Way Of Its Realization.

Nonviolence, In Its Dynamic Condition Means Conscious Suffering.

Where There Is No Strength Of Mind There Can Be No Strength Of Soul.

A True Brahmachari Will Not Even Dream Of Satisfying The Fleshly Appetite

Civilization Is That Mode Of Conduct Which Points Out To Man The Path Of Duty.

In Satyagraha, A Courted Imprisonment Carries Its Own Praise.

Ahimsa Is The Strongest Force Known.

Any Imposition From Without Means Compulsion. Such Compulsion Is Repugnant To Religion.

Civilization Is Not An Incurable Disease, But It Should Never Be Forgotten That The English People Are At Present Afflicted By It.

Democracy Can Only Represent The Average If Not Less Than The Average.

Anger Is The Enemy Of Non-violence And Pride Is A Monster That Swallows It Up.

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.

A Soldier Fights With An Irresistible Strength When He Has Blown Up His Bridges And Burnt His Boats. Even So, It Is With A Soldier Of Ahimsa.

The Swaraj Of My Dream Is The Poor Man's Swaraj.

Character Alone Will Have Real Effect On The Masses.

Repression Does For A True Man Or A Nation What Fire Does For Gold.

Just As The Body Cannot Exist Without Blood, So The Soul Needs The Matchless And Pure Strength Of Faith.

I Object To Violence Because When It Appears To Do Good, The Good Is Only Temporary; The Evil It Does Is Permanent.

I Do Believe That, Where There Is Only A Choice Between Cowardice And Violence, I Would Advise Violence. I Would Rather Have India Resort To Arms In Order To Defend Her Honour Than That She Should, In A Cowardly Manner, Become Or Remain A Helpless Witness To Her Own Dishonour. But I Believe That Nonviolence Is Infinitely Superior To Violence, Forgiveness Is More Manly Than Punishment.

You Can Chain Me, You Can Torture Me, You Can Even Destroy This Body, But You Will Never Imprison My Mind.

Belief In Non-violence Is Based On The Assumption That Human Nature In The Essence Is One And Therefore Unfailingly Responds To The Advances Of Love.

Nothing Has Saddened Me So Much In Life As The Hardness Of Heart Of Educated People.

Nonviolence Is The Summit Of Bravery.

For Winning Swaraj One Requires Iron Discipline.

All Your Scholarship, All Your Study Of Shakespeare And Wordsworth Would Be In Vain, If At The Same Time You Do Not Build Your Character, And Attain Mastery Over Your Thoughts And Actions.

As A Splendid Palace Deserted By Its Inmates Looks Like A Ruin, So Does A Man Without Character, All His Material Belongings Notwithstanding.

I Am Just Not Thinking Of India's Deliverance. It Will Come, But Will It Be Worth If England And France Fall, Or If They Come Out Victorious Over Germany Ruined And Humbled?

Voluntary Service Of Others Demands The Best Of Which One Is Capable, And Must Take Precedence Over Service Of Self.

In A Nonviolent Army, The General And The Officers Are Elected, Or Are As If Elected, When Their Authority Is Moral And Rests Solely On The Willing Obedience Of The Rank And File.

To Practice Nonviolence In Mundane Matters Is To Know Its True Value.

I Realized The True Function Of A Lawyer Was To Unite Parties Riven Asunder. The Lesson Was So Indelibly Burnt Into Me That A Large Part Of My Time During The Twenty Years Of My Practice As A Lawyer Was Occupied In Bringing About Private Compromises Of Hundreds Of Cases. I Lost Nothing Thereby -- Not Even Money, Certainly Not My Soul.

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