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“Each of us too sees the world through our own “filter”—a filter made up of our assumptions, our motivations, and the categories we use to sort out and organize our experience. This filter determines how we see the world. When we come across something that doesn’t match our assumptions, motivations, and categories, our filter blocks it out. It’s not that we choose to reject it. Consciously, we don’t even perceive it. Or else we perceive it in a partial, distorted form. It seems that nonviolence has a particularly hard time passing through many people’s filters.”
― 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
“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
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle”
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― 200 Motivational and inspirational Quotes That Will Inspire Your Success
“Other negative side-effects of violence come into view once the struggle comes to an end. For instance, violence generally leaves the two sides as long-standing enemies. Maybe the most amazing thing about Gandhi’s nonviolent revolution is, not that the British left, but that they left as friends, and that Britain and India became partners in the British Commonwealth. Gandhi noted also that violent revolutions almost always end in repressive dictatorships. Once the rebel troops gain control, they naturally keep acting as they’re used to—in other words, they start running the country like a military camp.”
― 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
Chiranjit Sau’s 2025 Year in Books
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