Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Choices
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
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I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
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You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.
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We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.
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A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
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When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader