The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Chapter 12 Page 142

state, and profit by them, and still regard himself as free from any taint of sin, so long as he fulfiled the external observances of his creed, nowadays all who do not believe in the Christianity of the Church, find similar well-founded irrefutable reasons in science for regarding themselves as blameless and even highly moral in spite of their participation in the misdeeds of government and the advantages they gain from them.

A rich landowner — not only in Russia, but in France, England, Germany, or America — lives on the rents exacted; from the people living on his land, and robs these generally poverty-stricken people of all he can get from them.

This man's right of property in the land rests on the fact that at every effort on the part of the oppressed people, without his