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

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.