Leo Tolstoy Violence Quotations

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.