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“A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy... That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.”
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- Source:
- Harijan (21 July 1940)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a3faee28291962aab57c746190e002d5d13d4c4223cb2de65dd15dc8845846c3
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