Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.