How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.