The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.