A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.