“There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.” MenStatesFormEvilReligiousSinAttitudePerfectionAbsolutesBoundsAbsenceKingdomsAnarchySovereigntyKingdom Of GodAnarchismAbsolute TruthAbsolutismReligious Truth Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.” MenWorldBelieveHumansDoeStatesHandsEarthBeliefReligiousAttitudeMankindAuthorityHuman LifeSoilHopelessPessimismOrthodoxyUnitingAbsolutismFuture Of Mankind Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.” HumansStatesShowsExerciseLimitsTendenciesHuman LifeDisputesGreat Power Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.” StatesSinCrimeHatredGods WillInterpretationFormalViolationDisobedienceDissociationDeficiencyProceedingEnslavementIncompleteness Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.” MenStatesMomentsLyingCreativeProductsActivitySlaveryLiberationEcstasyCreativeness Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.” StatesDarknessMovementReturnPrimitiveBackwardsConservatismChaotic Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
