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“The romance of militancy dominated our predecessors; now serious ideas ousted this way of thinking. No more mysticism! No more blind faith! Now realism was our mode of thinking. At times of terrible necessity, we can resort to extreme methods, but violence produces opposite results in mass movements.”
― Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
― Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
“Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love.”
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“I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.”
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“Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol.”
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“Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.”
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