"My method is conversion, not coercion, it..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
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“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.”
“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
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“It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!”
“Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.”
“The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.”