In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

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.