The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

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.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.