Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - October 20, 1910) on Economics and Conformity

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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 #10 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Economics and Conformity

“...for the happiness of men they do not need such a life amid plants and animals, with the possibility of satisfying nearly all their daily wants by means of their own agricultural labor, but a life in industrial centers with infected air, and with increasing and ever increasing demands, the gratification of which is possible only by means of senseless labor in the factories. And the working men who are enmeshed in the temptations of their factory lives believe this and use all their efforts in a miserable struggle with the capitalists for the sake of hours of labor and additional pennies, imagining that they are doing some very important work, whereas the only important work, for which those working men who have been torn away from the land ought to use all their forces, should consist in finding a means of returning to a life amid Nature...

[Section 5.]”

Source: "To the Working People," by Leo Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana, 1902, From The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy Vol XXIV (Latest Works/Life/General Index Biography) - Dana Estes & Co. - 1905 (pp. 131-169).

"To the Working People," by Leo Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana, 1902, From The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy Vol XXIV (Latest Works/Life/General Index Biography) - Dana Estes & Co. - 1905 (pp. 131-169).

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