“If exponents of armed struggle were less concerned with proving their manliness and more concerned with the welfare of the people they claim to stand up for, they might discover that nonviolent forms of struggle, everything considered, work better.”
― Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths: Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World
― Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths: Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle”
― 200 Motivational and inspirational Quotes That Will Inspire Your Success
― 200 Motivational and inspirational Quotes That Will Inspire Your Success
“In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.”
― 101 Amazing Facts
― 101 Amazing Facts
“Gandhi was not talking about defeating or overthrowing anyone. Satyagraha—Gandhi’s nonviolent action—was not a way for one group to seize what it wanted from another. It was not a weapon of class struggle, or of any other kind of division. Satyagraha was instead an instrument of unity. It was a way to remove injustice and restore social harmony, to the benefit of both sides.”
― Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths: Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World
― Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths: Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World
“Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey. The tyrant may get people to obey by threatening to throw them in prison, or by holding guns to their heads. But the power still resides in the obedience, not in the prison or the guns.”
― Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths: Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World
― Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths: Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World
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