"If intellect plays a large part in..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
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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“I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.”
“Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.”
“A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.”
More on Nonviolence
“Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.”
“We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.”
“There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.”
More on Intellect
“The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.”
“The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.”
“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.”