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Author : Leo Tolstoy

: 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'

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So it is not the Alexanders and Humberts, nor the Wilhelms, Nicholases, and Chamberlains -- though they decree these oppressions of the nations and these wars -- who are really the most guilty of these sins, but it is rather those who place and support them in the position of arbiters over the lives of their fellow-men. And, therefore, the thing to do is not to kill Alexanders, Nicholases, Wilhelms, and Humberts, but to cease to support the arrangement of society of which they are a result. And what supports the present order of society is the selfishness and stupefaction of the people, who sell their freedom and honor for insignificant material advantages.

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