Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.