To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
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.
Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.