Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Leo Tolstoy" in English language version.
Tolstoy articulated his Christian anarchist political thought between 1880 and 1910, yet its continuing relevance should have become fairly self-evident already.
... if [a man] be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling – killing. Preface to the Russian translation of Howard William's The Ethics of Diet Archived 24 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine
The Hindu Kural
The Hindu Kural
... if [a man] be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling – killing. Preface to the Russian translation of Howard William's The Ethics of Diet Archived 24 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine
