The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.