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Shall we admit that there is a duel between society and these souls deranged by the wrongs of society?

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While seeking his true relation to the infinite, Tolstoy was also seeking his true relation to mankind.

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It is especially easy in our time to forget others, largely because of the conditions in modern society.

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Throughout Bakounin's writings there appears again and again the plea for terrible, total, inexorable, and universal destruction.

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To live miserable we know not why, to have the dread of hunger, to work sore and yet gain nothing—this is the essence of poverty.

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As we look into a clear pool and discern every detail of its sandy bottom, so may we often look into the minds of really great men.

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Curiously enough, and this is what his family could not understand, the more religious he became the less he could tolerate the churches.

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Unquestionably socialism and anarchism attract distinctly different types, who are in many ways alien to each other. Their mental processes differ.

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To continue in poverty for any long period means in the end the loss of the power of doing work, and to be unable to work means in the end pauperism.

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Serfs and slaves were always given at least enough to keep them physically well. But present-day society has ignored the wisdom of this fair provision.

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Isaiah prophesied the coming of a revolution which would make men more precious than gold, and that a new nation would arise, wherein everyone should help his neighbor.

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Tolstoy's suggestions created no enthusiasm among the people. All.. seemed to be more than eager for Russia to hasten along the path already traversed by western civilization

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Without question, the causes, which produce on the one hand long hours and overemployment, result on the other hand in short periods of work, underemployment, or unemployment.

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To those... who see in certain underlying economic forces, the source of nearly all of our distressing social evils, individual hatred and malice can make in reality no appeal.

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Those who are in poverty may be able to get a bare sustenance but they are not able to obtain those necessaries which will permit them to maintain a state of physical efficiency.

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When principles will not work out in practice and the obstructions confronting men are too great, even the most faithful give way. And this, so far as we know, is what happened to every Tolstoyan.

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