Yes, but Jesus also said "If you don't have a sword, go out and buy one" and "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword". This is the guy who, when he found merchants selling things in the temple, used a whip to drive them out. Scripture's teaching on the use of violence is hardly as simple as 'turn the other cheek'.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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