Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

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

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.