Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
48349	Should the King command not to fear the Lord, it is better to endure all that he can inflict, than to do what he commands?
48349	TO call any one King, and at the same time to rebel against his authority, what is this but to mock him with an empty title?
7176	And what follows?
7176	Do not the figures make it clear that it is not the English who have enslaved the Indians, but the Indians who have enslaved themselves?
7176	Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?''
7176	IV_ Children, do you want to know by what your hearts should be guided?
7176	Is it not the same thing with the millions of people who submit to thousands''or even to hundreds, of others-- of their own or other nations?
7176	V_ Who am I?
4602	And what happened- nothing?
4602	And what happened-- nothing?
4602	Are all men bound to act as Tolstoy teaches-- i. e., to carry out these five commandments of Christ?
4602	But how are we to cast off the visible tangible protection of an armed policeman, and trust to something so intangible as public opinion? 4602 But is this interpretation of Christ a true one?"
4602	Can we get rid of war?
4602	Come for a walk in the town with me?
4602	Come, now, suppose your father were arrested and tried to make his escape?
4602	Fear will come upon us-- a void, a vast emptiness, freedom-- how are we to go forward not knowing whither, how face loss, not seeing hope of gain? 4602 How can we explain this extraordinary phenomenon which sooner or later threatens us all with inevitable bankruptcy?
4602	How can you kill people, when it is written in God''s commandment:''Thou shalt not kill''?
4602	I am come to send a fire on the earth,said Christ,"and what will I, if it be already kindled?"
4602	Was it Napoleon I. who carried forward the great intellectual movement started by the philosophers of the end of last century? 4602 Was it the invasions of the Persians which saved Greece from falling into the most hideous materialism?
4602	Were the invasions of the barbarians what saved and regenerated Rome? 4602 What have they done, those warriors, that proves the least intelligence?
4602	What is he muttering?
4602	What is the good of doing anything? 4602 What remains to us from Greece?
4602	What shall we find the other side of the walls of the world we are abandoning? 4602 What, did n''t you pay the tax?"
4602	Why should not the government be put on its trial after every declaration of war? 4602 Yes, but what is one to do?"
4602	46:"If I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
4602	A great genius answered that long ago in the words that have become a proverb:''Without justice, what is an empire but a great band of brigands?''
4602	Ah, why?
4602	And besides, how are we to find the moment when public opinion has become strong enough to be able to replace the use of force?
4602	And can a Christian, then, or can he not, always remaining a Christian, go to law or make any use of the law, or seek his own protection in the law?
4602	And can he, by taking his share of service in the army, prepare himself to murder men, and even actually murder them?
4602	And can the Christian, or can he not, remaining a Christian, take part in the administration of government, using compulsion against his neighbors?
4602	And for the sake of what am I making them?
4602	And how are we to love men in these troubled times when every fresh day is a menace of danger?...
4602	And is not every band of brigands a little empire?
4602	And is not the same thing done in Anglicanism, Lutheranism, and every denomination of Protestantism which has been formed into a church?
4602	And just as the dreamer need only make a moral effort and ask himself,"Is n''t it a dream?"
4602	And they are questioned:"What, did n''t you take the oath?"
4602	And what are the conditions in which you are doing this?
4602	And what good to us are these armies with their generals and bands and horses and drums?
4602	And what is the use of capital in the hands of private persons, when it can only be of use as the property of all?
4602	And what is the use of tax collectors who collect the taxes unwillingly, when it is easy to raise all that is wanted without them?
4602	And what need is there of them when there is no war, and no one wants to make war?
4602	And when were better men in power, when the Versaillist party or when the Commune was in power?
4602	And why is it so indispensably necessary?
4602	And why take ye thought for rainment?
4602	And why, most of all, should I take part in person or hire others to murder my own brothers and kinsmen?
4602	And, indeed what is a heresy?
4602	And, indeed, what sort of ethical doctrine could admit the legitimacy of murder for any object whatever?
4602	Are they ready to sacrifice modern civilization, their manner of life, their religion, the received conventional morality?
4602	Are ye not much better than they?
4602	Are you doing what he demands of you who has sent you into the world, and to whom you will soon return?
4602	Are you doing what he wills?
4602	But can a man make this effort?
4602	But if that is the true meaning of the rule of non- resistance, can it always put into practice?
4602	But is it possible that the higher classes support the existing order of things simply because it is to their advantage?
4602	But is it so with us?
4602	But is such a belief possible in these days?
4602	But it is not even this question"What will happen?"
4602	But precisely how many are needed to make it permissible?
4602	But so long as only a few act thus, what will happen to them?
4602	But the man who loves humanity-- what does he love?
4602	But what good or useful thing can come of all these improvements, if men do not speak and act in accordance with what they believe to be the truth?
4602	But what is it that is sacred to the civilized man of to- day?
4602	But what is this conviction based on?
4602	But what will happen when we give it up and trust ourselves to something invisible and intangible, and altogether unknown?"
4602	But when will it be?
4602	But who are these evil- disposed persons in our midst from whose attacks we are preserved by the state and its army?
4602	But who is to arrange that no war is to be declared?
4602	But why should we speak of the past and judge from the past, which may have been misrepresented and misunderstood by us?
4602	Can a Christian give a vote at elections, or take part in government or law business?
4602	Can he fight in conflict with foreign enemies or disturbers of the peace?
4602	Can he pay taxes to such a government?
4602	Can he voluntarily give money to aid a government resting on military force, capital punishment, and violence in general?
4602	Can he voluntarily vote or furnish soldiers for the government?
4602	Can that possibly be?
4602	Do men believe in it?
4602	Do they regard it as good?
4602	Does humanity end with the savage, the idiot, the dipsomaniac, or the madman?
4602	Does it compel them to go, and in case of disobedience punish them?
4602	Does it yet exist?
4602	Does the government let them off then?
4602	FOR WHAT DIFFERENCE IS THERE BETWEEN MONARCHIES AND REPUBLICS?
4602	Having withdrawn from human protection, what can sustain us but that faith which overcomes the world?
4602	He is all right?"
4602	How can I help asking myself when I take part in such punishments, whether they are just, and whether I ought to assist in carrying them out?
4602	How ought a man, as a Christian, to meet this demand?
4602	How then can the manifestations of truth disappear through our realizing it?
4602	I asked the old man,"Has he the Gospel?"
4602	If we draw a line excluding from humanity its lowest representatives, where are we to draw the line?
4602	If we must not oppose evil by force, nor swear, everyone naturally asks,"How, then, about military service?
4602	If your officer commands you to kill your neighbor''s child, to kill your father or your mother, would you obey?
4602	In another pamphlet, entitled"How many Men are Necessary to Change a Crime into a Virtue?"
4602	In the Catholic catechism it is said:"Quels sont ceux qui sont hors de l''église?
4602	Is Greece great from her conquests or her creations?
4602	Is it possible they must fire on them?
4602	Is not the life more than meat, and the body than rainment?
4602	Is the religion of Catholicism any other than that of the Russian Church?
4602	May he go with a complaint to the judge that he who has wronged him may be punished?
4602	May he kill or maim him in self- defense?
4602	Of whom was he speaking in the words,"Ye have heard it was said of old"?
4602	One involuntarily asks how can men let it go on, not from higher considerations only, but from regard to their own safety?
4602	One would expect that every man of the present day who has a grain of sense left, might reply to such requirements,"But why should I do all this?"
4602	People ask,"How will our security be guaranteed when the existing organization is suppressed?
4602	Q. Whence is the word"non- resistance"derived?
4602	Q. Wherein lies the chief significance of the doctrine of non- resistance?
4602	Shall we exclude the negroes like the Americans, or the Hindoos like some Englishmen, or the Jews like some others?
4602	So why preach about it?
4602	So why should I do this?
4602	Still less possible is it to prove them by experiment, since the whole matter turns on the question, ought we to try the experiment?
4602	The question amounts to this: In what way are we to decide men''s disputes, when some men consider evil what others consider good, and VICE VERSA?
4602	Then the ancients allowed the resistance of injury by injury?
4602	Then why did they do it, or allow it to be done?
4602	There is a law of evolution by which it follows that I must live and act in an evil way; what is to be done?
4602	Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
4602	Those who fight to eat the conquered, or those who fight to kill, for nothing but to kill?
4602	What about the law then which defines our whole existence?
4602	What are governments to do against such people?
4602	What are people thinking about?
4602	What do they demand from the people in virtue of their( so- called) Christian faith?
4602	What do they, diligently, assiduously, everywhere alike, without intermission, teach the people?
4602	What does this word express?
4602	What forces them to believe that the existing order is unchanging and they must support it?
4602	What has he to do in the army?
4602	What have they invented?
4602	What is done by the churches among us, among the Catholics and the Protestants of all denominations-- what is their practical work?
4602	What is socialism but a protest against this abnormal position in which the greater proportion of the population of our world is placed?
4602	What is the good of undertaking any enterprise?
4602	What is the meaning of it?
4602	What is the meaning of it?
4602	What is the meaning of it?
4602	What is the meaning of it?
4602	What is the practical work of the churches to- day?
4602	What is the use of the clergy, who do n''t believe in what they preach?
4602	What is their influence upon men?
4602	What is there to show that Christ enjoined non- resistance in that sense?
4602	What is this state, for whose sake such terrible sacrifices have to be made?
4602	What is to done with such people?
4602	What precisely will the new organization be that is to replace it?
4602	What sort of moral and rational society can be formed out of such elements?
4602	What utterances did Christ refer to in the words,"It was said of old"?
4602	What way, then, can the annihilation of the life of some men ameliorate men''s life?
4602	What will become of human society when the existing order of things is at an end?
4602	What will become of humanity if each of us performs the duty God demands of us through the conscience implanted within us?
4602	When Charles I. was ruler, or when Cromwell?
4602	Where does it end and where does it begin?
4602	Where is the definition of humanity?
4602	Which are the savages, the real savages?
4602	Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit onto his stature?
4602	Which was bad then, and which was good?
4602	Who has led them into this amazing delusion?
4602	Who has made you the nurse in charge of this sick and moribund organization?
4602	Who is to compel people to do this and that?
4602	Who is to force states to delay their operations for a certain fixed time?
4602	Who is to force them, and how?
4602	Why do all kings and emperors wear the military uniform?
4602	Why do even high- principled parents send their boys to military schools?
4602	Why do mothers buy their children toy helmets, guns, and swords as playthings?
4602	Why do they do it?
4602	Why do they fall with such fury on any effort at breaking down religious superstitions or really enlightening the people?
4602	Why have they killed her boy, her handsome boy, her one hope, her pride, her life?
4602	Why is it that not only governments but private persons of the higher classes, try so jealously to maintain the ignorance of the people?
4602	Why is it that one man, ten, a hundred, may not break the law of God, but a great number may?"
4602	Why should I flog myself?
4602	Why should I promise to obey them, knowing them to be wicked or foolish people, or else not knowing them at all?
4602	Why should I punish myself?
4602	Why should he not love humanity?
4602	Would n''t it be better, as some humorist suggested, to make a queen of india- rubber?"
4602	Would not any other man than Victor Hugo have been exiled for that mighty cry of deliverance and truth?
4602	[ Footnote:"Who are those who are outside the Church?
4602	and the oath of obedience?"
4602	and what are the results of their practical work?
4602	or, What shall we drink?
4602	or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
4602	was Tzar, or when he was killed and Catherine was Tzaritsa in one- half of Russia and Pougachef ruled the other?
4602	was removed and Robespierre came to power, and afterward Napoleon-- who ruled then, a better man or a worse?
4602	what''s this meeting about?"