One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. All through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always. The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The states that are today nominally democratic have either to become frankly totalitarian or, if they are to become truly democratic, they must become courageously non-violent.
Power is of two kinds.
One is obtained by fear of punishment and the other by arts of love. The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest. Police ranks will be composed of believers in non-violence. A non-violent army acts unlike armed men, as well in times of peace as in times of disturbances.