Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­ suffering. He admits of no exception to whittle down this great and divine law of love. He applies it to all the problems that trouble mankind.

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Introduction to the publication of Tolstoy's A Letter to a Hindu (1909)