Gandhi's originality as a thinker and political leader appears in his theory and practice of nonviolence. He was inspired by Leo Tolstoy in course of creating the concept of nonviolence. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and philosopher as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He is also well known for his idea of nonviolent resistance. The book I'm reading now says "he believed that to return injury for injury does harm both to ourselves and our enemy."

Gandhi shows the character of nonviolence in the book. He says that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. And there are lots of his remarks about nonviolence. I have to know the background of emergence of his idea, nonviolence however.