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Using force to protect one neighbor from another can never be reliably justified
Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said
What Leo Tolstoy actually said
- Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
Besides, apologies for violence used against one's neighbor in defense of another neighbor from greater violence are always untrustworthy, because when force is used against one who has not yet carried out his evil intent, I can never know which would be greater—the evil of my act of violence or of the act I want to prevent.
Where this was said
↗The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894; Constance Garnett translation)gutenberg.org
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