Many great quotes in Tolstoy's " Last Diaries " against social injustice

  "   Militarism arouses the demand for patriotism, which in turn justifies the baseness of militarism. Patriotism arouses the demand for militarism, which in turn supports patriotism ".

    " The people have become conscious of the injustice they have suffered , and they react to this injustice in various ways ( for the most part with anger , unfortunately ). But the people already understand it. This awareness cannot be exterminated . And what is our government doing. By trying to crush the inextinguishable awareness of injustices suffered, it is increasing the sense of injustice and stimulating a more angry attitude toward injustice . "

     " There is a certain people who have set up such a way of life , that the greater part of them, ninety nine percent , or thereabouts, live in ceaseless labor and oppressive need, and the rest , one percent, live in idleness and luxury; now if that one hundredth has its own religion, science, and art, what would that religion, science and art be like ?  I think that there can be only one answer : " A perverted, a bad, religion, science, and art ".

   " The salvation of mankind is possible only through not participating in violence. Not to pay taxes is impossible. They will come to get them, but one can always refuse to be an oppressor ".

          " First the government, with the help of the church alone, deceived the people in order to rule over them; now the government is preparing science little by little for this work, and science very willingly and diligently is taking up the task ".

           " Life without an understanding of its meaning, i.e; without religion, is what is called insanity .
  " We seek the good, and our whole lives consist of this search, and therefore, whether we want it or not, our whole lives consist of a search for God "

          Still weak and the weather is bad. Thank God, without wishing to I feel a good readiness for death ".

       " I am still at a low point intellectually, but spiritually alive. Revised On Socialism again..