The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.