Mean Quotes - Page 952

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

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

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.

Means are ends in the making

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

Violent means will give violent freedom.