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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

We try to show that violence has a consequence - when you create violence, it turns against you.