I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.