Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.