Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

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.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

The golden rule of conduct ... is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creatures as oneself.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.