The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.