"Active nonviolence is necessary for those who..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.”

“The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each”

“Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.”

“When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.”

“I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.”

“No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.”

“If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.”

“Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?”

“In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'”