The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

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.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Rioting is not revolutionary.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.