Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

You're as good as anybody.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.