If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.