With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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