Truth never damages a cause that is just. |
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. |
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. |
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. |
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Freedom is not worth living if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that previous right. |
The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. |
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. |
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. |
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. |
I think it would be an excellent idea. |
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty and democracy? |
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being. |
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. |
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth. |
Good government is the most dangerous government, because it deprives people of the need to look after themselves. |
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. |
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. |
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart. |
If we are to reach 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. |
