QuoteQuest“Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor—that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
"To the Working People," Complete Works, trans. Leo Wiener, Vol 24, p. 129 (1905)
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Tolstoy, Leo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
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