The Law of Violence and the Law of Love
2 hrs. 58 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Leo Tolstoy
Author
Leo Tolstoy
Narrator
Alexander Khoshabaev
Narrator
Alexander Khoshabaev
Description
"I write only what I write, because knowing that one thing that can free the Christian world’s people from those terrible bodily sufferings—and, above all, from the spiritual corruption they are sinking deeper and deeper into—standing at the edge of the coffin, I cannot be silent.
In our time it cannot be unclear to all thinking people that people’s lives—of not only Russians, but all the peoples of the Christian world—under conditions of their ever-growing need of the poor and the luxury of the rich, their struggle of all against all, revolutionaries against governments, governments against revolutionaries, oppressed nations against oppressors, the struggle of states among themselves, the West against the East, along with the ever-growing and consuming the people’s strength armaments, their refinement and depravity—such a life cannot continue. If the life of Christian peoples does not change, it will inevitably become poorer and poorer."
L. N. Tolstoy, “The Law of Violence and the Law of Love”
In our time it cannot be unclear to all thinking people that people’s lives—of not only Russians, but all the peoples of the Christian world—under conditions of their ever-growing need of the poor and the luxury of the rich, their struggle of all against all, revolutionaries against governments, governments against revolutionaries, oppressed nations against oppressors, the struggle of states among themselves, the West against the East, along with the ever-growing and consuming the people’s strength armaments, their refinement and depravity—such a life cannot continue. If the life of Christian peoples does not change, it will inevitably become poorer and poorer."
L. N. Tolstoy, “The Law of Violence and the Law of Love”
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