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“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”

Leo Tolstoy · Government

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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