Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.
It is a tie between men to have read the same book.
Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!