"Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
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“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”
“How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.”
“A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.”
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“The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.”