Ahimsa is not a policy for the seizure of power. It is a way of
transforming relationships so as to bring about a peaceful transfer of
power, effected freely and without compulsion by all concerned,
because all have come to recognize it as right.
-- Thomas Merton. from the introduction to the section, "Principles
of Non-Violence" in Gandhi on Non-Violence edited by Thomas Merton. New Directions (2007).