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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
I believe that for Christians there can be neither communism nor property rights. Christianity, with its essential basis, complete freedom which excludes the possibility of violence of man against man, also annuls communism and the right to property. If I made a pair of boots and I want to give them to my son, the communist asks me for these boots for the common good. If I don't want to give them, he will use violence against me. The statesman will do the same against the man who wants to take my boots, he will use violence. The Christian, however, although he knows and respects the tendency of people to want everyone to dispose of his work, he does not consider himself entitled to fulfill this desire by force, and he does not consider anyone entitled to take by force, in the name of communism, the fruit of man's work. Christianity, like Communism, excludes property but does not condone violence. Property, like communism, is the result of violence, it is about violence that does not exist for the Christian.