"Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke."

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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

— Mahatma Gandhi