The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.