The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.