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Government may suppress private violence but always brings growing violence of its own

Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Leo Tolstoy actually said

  1. Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
    Government authority, even if it does suppress private violence, always introduces into the life of men fresh forms of violence, which tend to become greater and greater in proportion to the duration and strength of the government.

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