Quote by Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy

Other quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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

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War
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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. – Leo Tolstoy

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Health
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Im Irish. I think about death all the time. – Jack Nicholson

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Life is a predicament which precedes death. – Henry James

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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. – W. C. Fields

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Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death. – Michel Aoun

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