If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms. Acceptance of non-violence, therefore… is the most natural and the most necessary condition of our national existence. It will teach us to husband our corporate physical strength for a better purpose, instead of dissipating it, as now, in a useless fratricidal strife, in which each party is exhausted after the effort.
— Mohandas Gandhi, Young India, 1924 – 1926
