To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.