"For me popular violence is as much..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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“If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.”
“Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.”
“No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.”
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“The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.”
“No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.”
“The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.”
More on Government
“To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.”
“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.”
“The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.”