“You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.”

“As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian life cannot take part in deeds of violence. Of what value then to him are arguments about the imaginary advantages of doing what is morally impossible for him to do?”

“The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?”

“Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.”

“Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?"Vronksy”

“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”

“The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.”