Gandhi and Nonviolence

I have therefore ventured to place before India the ancient law of self-sacrifice. For Satyagraha and its offshoots, noncooperation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering. The rishis who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. They were themselves greater warriors than Wellington. Having themselves known the use of arms, they realized their uselessness and taught a weary world that its salvation lay not through violence but nonviolence.