For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought and act by act, with every breath we build more firmly the kingdom of non-violence that is the true home of the spirit of humanity.