Tolstoy

"State authority, even if it clears away old injustices, always creates new ones, just because it is state authority. It cannot act otherwise, for it is based on violence, and violence is the negation of love."

I do not now concern myself with theology and the Gospels, but with an inner work of an entirely different nature. I have to do now, with nothing systematic or methodical, only with that sudden light which showed me the Gospel doctrine in all its simple beauty.