Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.