There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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.
As soon as we lose moral basis, we cease to be religious.There is no such thing as religion over -riding morality. Man cannot be untruthful and claim to have god on his side.
An unjust law is a species of violence. Arrest for it’s breach is even more so.
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the fault of others.
Nonviolence and truth are inseperable and presuppose one another.
Where there is love there is life.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.