Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.