War and Peace (Signet Classical Books)

by Leo Tolstoy

These justifications release those who produce the events from moral responsibility.

Morally the wielder of power appears to cause the event; physically it is those who submit to the power. But as the moral activity is inconceivable without the physical, the cause of the event is neither in the one nor in the other but in the union of the two.

In our time the majority of so-called advanced people—that is, the crowd of ignoramuses—have taken the work of the naturalists who deal with one side of the question for a solution of the whole problem.

for as soon as there is no freedom there is also no man.