Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - October 20, 1910) on Oppression and Murder

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(1828 - 1910)

Russian Writer, Novelisst, Vegetarian, Pacifist, Christian Theorist, Libertarian, Ally of Anarchists, and Regarded as one of the Greatest Authors of all Time

: A Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909; the fact that he never won is a major controversy. (From: Wikipedia.org.)


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Quote #4 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Oppression and Murder

“The murder of Kings -- the murder of Humbert -- is terrible, but not on account of its cruelty. The things done by command of Kings and Emperors -- not only past events such as the massacre of St.. Bartholomew religious butcheries, the terrible repressions of peasant' rebellions, and Paris coups d' etat, but the present-day Government executions, the doing-to-death of prisoners in solitary confinement, the Disciplinary Battallions, the hangings, the beheadings, the shootings and slaughter in wars-are incomparably more cruel than the murders committed by Anarchists. Nor are these murders terrible because undeserved. If Alexander II. and Humbert did not deserve death, still less did the thousands of Russians who perished at Plevna, or of Italians who perished in Abyssinia. Such murders are terrible, not because they are cruel or unmerited, but because of the unreasonableness of those who commit them.”

Source: "'Thou Shalt Not Kill'," by Leo Tolstoy, August 8, o.s., 1900.

"'Thou Shalt Not Kill'," by Leo Tolstoy, August 8, o.s., 1900.

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