If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.