So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.