Voices from the Dust

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­r...

“ Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.  We should st...

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. I swear by non-violence because I know that it alone conduces to the highest...

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” --------------------/ Written statement in trial for sedition,...

“You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegian...

"[T]he line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right thr...

Yes, the devil is strong! Our Fatherland is like this: to shove it a yard or two along the road to tyranny, a frown, a little cough, is eno...

“Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, ...

“Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. ...

“We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it s...

2 I say unto thee, ..., that the plan of restoration is requisite with the justice of God; for it is requisite that all things should be re...

22 And then, O ye Gentiles, how can ye stand before the power of God, except ye shall repent and turn from your evil ways? 23 Know ye not ...

Does this describe our present world? 1 BUT, behold, in the last days, or in the days of the Gentiles—yea, behold all the nations of the Ge...

A question to ponder? How was that complex moral code—so uncongenial to our nature, so irritating with its “Thou shalt nots”—inculcated and...

28 And the angel said unto me that many shall see greater things than these, to the intent that they might believe that these signs and thes...

& Ariel Durant 1898-1981 (Patterns in History) “Liberty and equality are enemies: the more freedom men enjoy, the freer they are to re...

& Ariel Durant 1898-1981 (Patterns in History) “But individual freedom contains its own nemesis; it tends to increase until it overrun...

(Patterns in History) 15 And it came to pass that thus they did agree with ________. And _______ did administer unto them the oaths which ...

(Patterns in History - PIN Series) 5 And it came to pass that those who were desirous that _________ should be dethroned from the judgmen...

" How did the Dark Power go wrong? Here, no doubt, we ask a question to which human beings cannot give an answer with any certainty. A ...

"Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we f...

“For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but ...

Being a democrat, I am opposed to all very drastic and sudden changes of society (in whatever direction) because they never in fact take pla...

"I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And th...