Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.
Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.
The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.
Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.
I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
But success and failure are of no account. They are God’s concern, not mine.
Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire’s fall or its regeneration.
It is beneath human dignity to lose one’s individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.