Leo Tolstoy on Violence

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

“As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence — as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.”