Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonยญresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfยญsuffering.
Mahatma GandhiI have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
Mahatma GandhiWhen a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
Mahatma Gandhi