Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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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• 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
  • People
  • Death
  • Violence