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Civil
Disobedience
- Civil
disobedience is the assertion of a right, which law should give
but which it denies.
- Civil
disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed
rules, and without it civil disobedience would be cruel joke.
- Civil
disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless
or, which is the same thing, corrupt.
- Civil
disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering without the
intoxicating excitement of killing.
- Disobedience
to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
- Disobedience
to be civil implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
- Disobedience
that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
- Non-cooperation
and civil disobedience are different but [are] branches of the
same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force).
Coercion
- Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
- One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
Cooperation
- Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.
- Nonviolent action without the cooperation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.
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Democracy
- Democracy
necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving
sometimes a war . . . between different ideas.
- The
very essence of democracy is that every person represents
all the varied interests, which compose the nation.
- Democracy
is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be
greatly abused.
- Democracy
is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but
let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.
- Democracy
is not a state in which people act like sheep.
- Democracy
and violence can ill go together.
- Evolution
of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear
the other side.
- Democracy,
disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
- The
spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has
to come from within.
- My
notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have
the same opportunity as the strongest.
- To
safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence,
self-respect, and their oneness.
- Intolerance,
discourtesy, and harshness are taboo in all-good society and
are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
- In
true democracy every man and women is taught to think for
himself or herself.
- The
spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of
terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
- Corruption
and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy,
as they undoubtedly are today.
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