Self-suffering Quotes

• Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Tyranny
  • Devoted

• Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Barrier
  • Self-suffering

• The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Function
  • Resistance

• Patience means self-suffering.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Patience
  • Means
  • Self-suffering