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Leo Tolstoy

“As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian life cannot take part in deeds of violence. Of what value then to him are arguments about the imaginary advantages of doing what is morally impossible for him to do?”

Leo Tolstoy, Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non Violence
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Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non Violence Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non Violence by Leo Tolstoy
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