If you throw away your weapons, some less scrupulous person will pick them up. If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.If you live for others, you must live for others, and not as a roundabout way of getting an advantage for yourself.
George Orwell