If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.
Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.
My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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