Doe Quotes - Page 373

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

Man does not live by destruction.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.