I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

Violence begins with the fork.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?

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.