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.
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.