The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.