Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality.

Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.