 | Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - October 20, 1910) on Religious Powers and The State(published by RevoltSource) |
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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 #15 on Religious Struggle Quotes >> Religious Powers and The State
“...the intervention of Government in matters of faith produces that most harmful and therefore worst of vises, hypocrisy... the interference of Government in matters of faith hinders each individual and the whole people from attaining that highest blessing union with one another. For union is attained, not by the forcible and impossible retention of all men in the bonds of one and the same external, once-accepted, confession of a religious teaching to which infallibility is attributed, but only by the free advance of the whole of humanity towards truth, which alone, therefore, can truly unite men.”
Source: "To the Tsar and His Assistants," by Leo Tolstoy, March 15, o.s., 1901.
"To the Tsar and His Assistants," by Leo Tolstoy, March 15, o.s., 1901.
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