The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.