No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution b…

Ernest Hemingway
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. ✨ Treasury of the Free World. Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.
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