Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused