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[https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/how-to-resist-evil by Leo Tolstoy 2/2/22 Plough] | [https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/how-to-resist-evil by Leo Tolstoy 2/2/22 Plough] | ||
People are astonished that every year there are sixty thousand cases of suicide in Europe, and those only the recognized and recorded cases – and excluding Russia and Turkey; but one ought rather to be surprised that there are so few. Every person of the present day, if we go deep enough into the contradiction between his conscience and his life, is in a state of despair. | People are astonished that every year there are sixty thousand cases of suicide in Europe, and those only the recognized and recorded cases – and excluding Russia and Turkey; but one ought rather to be surprised that there are so few. Every person of the present day, if we go deep enough into the contradiction between his conscience and his life, is in a state of despair. | ||
===== Leo Tolstoy and Nonviolence===== | |||
[https://contensis.uwaterloo.ca/sites/sandboxes/admin/testCopy-1205/lecture-content/module-4/4c.aspx by Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910] | |||
After serving in the Russian military and experiencing the horror of war, Tolstoy gradually came to a position of nonviolence. He studied the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in the New Testament Bible, in particular commandments to love one’s enemies and not resist evil. It may seem ironic, but Tolstoy was excommunicated from the church for these views in 1909. | |||
