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

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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. – Leo Tolstoy

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Helping
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The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. – Leo Tolstoy

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Property
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Well, theres a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. – Miguel de Cervantes

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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. – A. N. Wilson

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Death

To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. – C.G. Jung

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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, its just sort of a tired feeling. – Paula Poundstone

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The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies. – Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866), “Religion in Disease,” 1865

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Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition. – Jacob Moleschott

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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes

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It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. – Friedrich Schiller

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