The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.