All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

He who injures living beings is not noble. He is called noble because he is gentle and kind towards all living beings.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves.

I say to you, today, there is another way that combines the best points of both of these and avoids the evil points of both, and that is what we call nonviolent resistance.

As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked - and rightly so - what about Vietnam?