Quotes about mean
mean self passive-resistance
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
mean successful violence
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
mean violence reform
My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
mean village bread
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
mean diversity world
Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
mean structure prosecution
Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.
mean doe ends
Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
mean countrymen
Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
mean independence dominion
Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
mean self people
Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
mean satyagraha resorts
A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
mean religion compulsion
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
mean religion tragedy
It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
mean fighting may
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
mean world favour
Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.
mean winning moments
Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
mean negative-words effort
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.
mean men achieve
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
mean suffering conscious
Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.
mean islam nonviolence
The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.
mean independence ends
Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence.
mean sacrifice self
Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.
mean evil operations
Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.
mean helping sin
Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
mean excellence intellect
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
mean pennies want
No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
mean decentralization distribution
Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.
mean spirit infinite
The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.
mean feelings earth
The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
mean slavery fruit
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.
mean india nations
India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.
mean government joints
A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
mean giving world
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.