‘Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age – Christians, humanitarians, nice, kind people – to commit the most heinous crimes without any feeling of guilt. There is only one solution – doing just what we do now: you make them governors, superintendents, officers or policemen...
Nekhlyudov’s reflections, in Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
From: I You We Them by Dan Gretton
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"God gave food to people, and the devil gave cooks."
— #Tolstoy
I just think it's unintentionally hilarious.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
— Matthew 19:23-24
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A charity is only then a real charity when it involves sacrifice.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
— James 5:3
In money—in the money itself, in its acquisition, in its possession—there is something immoral.
A truly kind person cannot be rich. A rich person, without question, is not a kind one.
— Chinese proverb
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The same divine beginning lives in all people, and no single person or gathering of people has the right to destroy this connection between the divine beginning and a human body, that is, to take a human life. 4/4
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When civilians get into these circumstances, they become ashamed of such a way of life. The military, on the contrary, are proud of it and boast of this way of life, especially during periods of war. They say: “We are ready to risk our lives at war, and therefore such a careless joyful life is necessary for us, and we have the right to lead it.” 3/x
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Military service makes people corrupt, because the military, in time of peace, abides in complete idleness; they lack any useful labor, they are freed of the obligations of such work. Instead, they create notions of honor of regiment, or of banner, or the complete subjugation of one person by another. 2/x
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No exceptions or special circumstances can justify the murder of a living person. Murder is the most vulgar violation of the Law of God as it is expressed in all religious teachings and in all people’s conscience. 1/x
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Read this at calendarof.life today (it changes everyday) and struck me as being profound.
> Christ expressed all His teachings in His last commandment: “Love each other, as I loved you. Everyone will see that you are my disciples, if you love each other.” He did not say, “If you believe,” but “If you love.” Faith can change with time, because our knowledge is constantly changing. Love, on the contrary, never changes; love is eternal.
When we accept false and violent laws and submit to them, we can neither establish truth nor combat lies in this world.
#Tolstoy
No person is without sin; no person is completely truthful. It is not that one person is virtuous and truthful and another is sinful and deceitful; rather it’s that one person strives to move toward truth and virtue and the other does not.
A new work of art should bring a new emotion in our life.
Emerson said that music helps people to find the greatness in their souls. The same can be said about any form of art.
Contemporary artists and scholars do not fulfill and cannot fulfill their destinies, because they have transformed their duties into their rights. 2/2
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Art is the activity whereby a person makes a conscious attempt to use the particular means at his disposal to transmit his feelings to others so that they feel them as intensely as he does.
In a true creation of art, there is not only no border between the work of art and the artist, but also between the work and the other people who experience it. The major attraction of real art lies in this unification. 1/x
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Today = 3rd 
of Λέων #Τολστόι: Η δουλεία της εποχής μας: το #κράτος, which includes Greek translation of my #AnarchistStudies titled "Leo #Tolstoy on the #State: A Detailed Picture of Tolstoy's Denunciation of State #Violence & #Deception"
