If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

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

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.