Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
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The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.
I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
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I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.