Behalf Quote by George Orwell

“Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.”

— George Orwell

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

— Leo Tolstoy

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

— Ron Paul

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

— Dan Simmons

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

— Edward Kennedy

Violence is sometimes a duty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Henri Nouwen

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

— Leo Tolstoy

A lust for the violence is the science of their behavior.

— Krs One