I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist. The religion of non-violence is not meant merely for the rishis and saints. It is meant for the common people as well. Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. Gandhi the Apostle: His Trial and His Message - Page 100by Haridas Thakordas Muzumdar - 1923 - 198 pagesFull view - About this book
| G.A. Natesan - India - 1922 - 982 pages
...conflict from the physical to the spiritual plane, and he says in support of his position : A'onviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of...the brute, and he knows no law, but that of physical force. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law — the strength of the spirit. In the... | |
| 1922 - 290 pages
...conflict from the physical to the spiritual plane, and he says in support of his position : Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the-brute, and he knows no law, but that of physicel force. The dignity of man requires obedience to... | |
| Mahatma Gandhi - India - 1924 - 1298 pages
...not meant merely for the Rishis and saints. It is meant for the common people as well. Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of...to a higher law — to the strength of the spirit. I have therefore ventured to place before India the ancient law of self-sacrifioe. For Satyagraha and... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1924 - 1030 pages
...common people as well. Nonviolence is the law of our species as violences is the law of the brute. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, — to the strength of the spirit. ... I want India to practice Non-violence being conscious of her strength and power. I want India to... | |
| Romain Rolland - Biography & Autobiography - 1924 - 266 pages
...not meant merely for the Rishis and saints. It is meant for the common people as well. Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law — to the strength of the spirit. ... I want India... | |
| Ramnarayan Vyas - Culture - 1928 - 176 pages
...long survival or permanent existence."7 only way befitting the dignity of human beings. "Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of...obedience to a higher law - to the strength of the spirit."8 Gandhi hated war - the violent war. He condemned it for the various reasons. War takes "so... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Government publications - 1979 - 202 pages
...nonviolence is not meant for the Rishis and saints. It is meant for the common people as welt. Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of...obedience to a higher law to the strength of the spirit." He wanted India to practice nonviolence with the consciousness of her strength and powers and not because... | |
| Kurt Abraham - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1983 - 180 pages
...on nonviolence Gandhi wrote: I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist. Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of...physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to the higher law — to the strength of the spirit. . . . Non-violence in its dynamic condition means... | |
| Dale T. Snauwaert - Education - 1993 - 150 pages
...each individual was contingent upon the existence of "non-violent" social institutions. "Non-violence is the law of our species, as violence is the law...dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law" (Gandhi, cited in Chatterjee 1984, 3). Violence, however, is not confined to physical force. In fact,... | |
| Gérard Chaliand - History - 1994 - 1126 pages
...not meant merely for the rishis and saints. It is meant for the common people as well. Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of...obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit. I have ventured to place before India the ancient law of self-sacrifice. For Satyagraha and its offshoots,... | |
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