Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.

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.