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Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

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

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

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

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

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.