Mahatma Gandhi, who elevated nonviolence into a great weapon for social change, had one simple goal later on in his life: to rid India of the British overlords who had crippled it for so many centuries. The British were clever rulers. Gandhi understood that if nonviolence were to work, it would have to be extremly strategic, demanding much thought and planning. He went so far as to call nonviolence a new kind of waging war. To promote any value, even peace and pacifism, you must be willing to fight for it and to aim at results – not simply the good, warm feeling that expressing such ideas may bring you. The moment you aim for results you are in the realm of strategy. War and strategy have an iexorable logic: if you want or desire anything, you must be ready and able to fight for it.

—Robert Greene