Gandhi did not believe in using force. He considered violence to be the spirit of revenge, impatience and anger. He believed that the method of violence could not be beneficial for posterity.

"...Unlike that of violence it certainly involves the exercise of restraint and patience; but it requires also resoluteness of will. This method is to refuse to be party to the wrong...India has choice before her now. If then the acts of the Punjab Government be an insufferable wrong, if the repot of Lord hunter’s Committee and the two dispatches be a greater wrong by reason of their grievous condonation of these acts, it is clear that we must refuse to submit to this official violence. Appeal the Parliament by all means if necessary, but if the Parliament fails us and if we are worthy to call ourselves a nation, we must refuse to uphold the government by withdrawing co-operation from it."