government 3
- Asking governments to give up violence is asking them to abolish themselves
- Government may suppress private violence but always brings growing violence of its own
Leo Tolstoy
Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910); author of War and Peace and The Kingdom of God Is Within You.
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religion 3
- If art is essential for everyone it should be accessible to everyone
- A society's shared religious sense decides the value of the feelings its art transmits
war 3
- Almost no human activity except the military consumes as much labour as art
- Most people submit to military service through a kind of hypnosis, not sober calculation