There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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 being.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the fault of others.
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts, making the noblest of gods creation, women, the object of our lust.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
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.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.