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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

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

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

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.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

On the market, all is harmony. But as soon as intervention appears and is established, conflict is created, for each may participate in a scramble to be a net gainer rather than a net loser - to be part of the invading team instead of one of the victims.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.