Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.