Last month saw the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Novelist Leo Tolstoy. To celebrate a couple of quotes from his last novel Redemption
And he ran over in his mind the people he knew who were suffering from the activity of the various institutions for the re-establishment of justice, the support of religion and the education of the masses … and he saw with remarkable clarity that all these people had been arrested, locked up or exiled, not in the least because they had transgressed against justice or committed lawless acts but merely because they were an obstacle hindering the officials and the rich from enjoying the wealth they were busy amassing from the people.’ (pp 386-387)
‘there was no man living who was guiltless and therefore able to punish or reform.’ (p. 565)
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