Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.