True Christianity is incompatible with government and its violence, executions and wars

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

Leo Tolstoy c. 1893–1894 Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)

But no honest and serious-minded man of our day can help seeing the incompatibility of true Christianity—the doctrine of meekness, forgiveness of injuries, and love—with government, with its pomp, acts of violence, executions, and wars.

Where this was said

↗The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894; Constance Garnett translation)gutenberg.org

c. 1893–1894

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