The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
Mahatma GandhiStrictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.
Mahatma Gandhi