When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.