Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Mahatma Gandhi

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• The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.

  

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• Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means.

  

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• Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

  

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• Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Civil
  • Disobedience
  • Retaliation