On ending war

When so many people are making their living by participating in the war system, it is not likely that a majority will hunger and thirst after a peace system. As it is now, the constitutive rules of the system determine that keeping down the rebels is one of the main ways to bring home a paycheck.

For Tolstoy the first and indispensable means for making the message of peace practical was sincerity, as for his follower Gandhi the indispensable means to peace was truth. Tolstoy’s revolution began by setting a good example.

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