It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.