I am an absolute pacifist ... It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental nonviolence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Non-violence 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 very being.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

The distant Trojans never injured me.