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The machine may be used against men and women, as in war, or for them, as in peace. The ascetic notion, popularized by such men as Tolstoy and Gandhi, that it is necessarily harmful and always evil is unphilosophical.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 155