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Scheduled as Daily Quote: 1907-10-26
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Non-resistance to evil through violence is not a commandment, but a clear law of life, intelligible to every man and to all mankind, even to all living things. This law is fulfilled without ceasing. Wolves degenerate, rabbits multiply. This law, like any law, is an ideal towards which everything that lives naturally tends and towards which every man must aim. This law seems incorrect only when it is represented as a requirement for complete realization, and not (as it should be understood) as an eternal, unceasing, unconscious and conscious tendency towards its realization... Nicolae with Stolâpin and the revolutionaries, destroying themselves , they who are the enemies of non-resistance, unconsciously contribute to the fulfillment of the law.

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Non-resistance to evil through violence is not a commandment, but a clear law of life, intelligible to every man and to all mankind, even to all living things. This law is fulfilled without ceasing. Wolves degenerate, rabbits multiply. This law, like any law, is an ideal towards which everything that lives naturally tends and towards which every man must aim. This law seems incorrect only when it is represented as a requirement for complete realization, and not (as it should be understood) as an eternal, unceasing, unconscious and conscious tendency towards its realization... Nicolae with Stolâpin and the revolutionaries, destroying themselves , they who are the enemies of non-resistance, unconsciously contribute to the fulfillment of the law.

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Romanian

"Neîmpotrivirea la rău prin violența nu e poruncă, ci lege limpede a vieții, inteligibilă pentru fiecare om și pentru toata omenirea, ba chiar pentru tot ce e viu. Aceasta lege se împlinește fără încetare. Lupii degenerează, iepurii se înmulțesc. Legea asta, ca orice lege, e un ideal către care tinde de la sine tot ce-i viu și către care trebuie să tindă orice om. Legea asta pare incorectă numai când e reprezentată ca o cerință de realizare completa, iar nu (așa cum trebuie înțeleasă) ca o tendință dintotdeauna, neîncetată, inconștientă și conștientă spre realizarea ei... Nicolae cu Stolâpin și revoluționarii, distrugându-se pe sine, ei care sunt dușmanii neîmpotrivirii, contribuie inconștient la împlinirea legii."

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