Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.Leo Tolstoy
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
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Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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