Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.