"Revolution has a place in deposing a ruler who does not embody the dasrājadhamma, but not a place within a revolutionary political philosophy which espouses violence and bloodshed."
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Bhikkhu Buddhadasa, Me and Mine: Selected Essays of Bhikkhu Buddhadasa, edited by Donald K. Swearer (1989), p.
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