Violence (n.) is a pervasive evil. All efforts to judge or classify the 'other' constitute violence against individual uniqueness, and love and justice require openness, unconditional acceptance.
Violence (n.) is always already immanent in all forms of metaphysics, such as logocentrism, ethnocentrism, phallogocentrism, and so forth, which excommunicate the other in the system of the same.
Violence (n.) is so intricately interwoven with the fabric of the created order itself that all legal structures carry the seed of violence.
Violence (n.) is the price we pay to have a mind.
Violence (n.) did not wait for writing: writing has always begun in language, so violence is already writing.
Violence (n.) is the reduction of everything to the world, the origin of every straitjacket.
Violence (n.) and nonviolence are divided by a limit that runs not between speech and writing but within each of them.
Violence (n.) is first the neutralization of desire: the solitude of a mute glance, a face that does not speak.
Violence (n.) did not exist before speech, though speech is its first defeat.
Violence (n.) comes before ethics: a transcendental, pre-ethical violence sets up the very relation that ethical nonviolence later answers.
Violence (n.) without a victim is also violence without an author, since all egos are others for others.
Violence (n.) would be reduced only by reducing alterity, for Weil; for Levinas the reverse is true.