Author of quotes: Nikolai Berdyaev

Under "nation", "national" never refers to people, real creatures, and abstract principle, advantageous for some social groups. This fundamental distinction of the nation from the people, which is always associated with people. National ideology is usually the ideology of class. Appealing to the national whole, they want to crush parts, consisting of people, beings who can suffer and rejoice. "Nationality" becomes the idol, demands human sacrifice, like all idols.

More likely to suffer are not the worst men, are more likely to suffer best people.

Suffering is the basic fact of human existence.

Fear always considered shameful in the war, it was called cowardice.

Religious life was born of fear, which was used to maintain the evil and unjust orders.

The same fear prevails in the life of an individual and in social life. Concern, insecurity of life in the end give rise to fear.

Fear is associated not only with lies, but with cruelty. Ill are not only those who fear and those who fear. Not only control the masses through fear, but the masses themselves are governed through fear.

Periodically managing fear leads to totalitarian regimes and terror.

Human society was built on fear. And because it was built on lies, because fear breeds lies. There is fear that the truth will reduce the fear and hurt to control people.

Fear rules the world. Power by nature is fear.

Sovereignty belongs only to God. And the sovereignty of God never incarnates, incarnates only the sacrificial love of God, not sovereignty. And God, in the end, is not sovereignty, because sovereignty is human, not God. God never was in the world rich, he was poor, he was not incarnated as the power of this world, it was embodied only as the crucified truth. God does not have sovereignty, because they do not have the power. Power is human, not God. Power refers not to spiritual life and social relations of people. God is the power, not the power. The power of God is spiritual and not like the manifestation of power in this world. Spiritual power is freedom. Spiritual power does not need the powers of this world, she is a miracle compared to the determinism of this world.

Marxism is not a social utopia, it is socially feasible, Marxism is a spiritual utopia. Rationalization of social life does not solve any spiritual issue, spiritual life is not subject to rationalization, she only injured. Attempts to rationalize and regulate the spiritual life will only exacerbate the tragic conflict between the individual and society. The problem of suffering and evil is not only a social problem, although it has a social side. The problem of suffering and evil is a spiritual problem, the problem of spiritual life. Man will not be happier when his life is more settled, his suffering will become thinner and worsen. Happiness cannot be organized. While this world will exist, bliss is impossible.

One might try to come to terms with the injustice and senselessness of falling to its share of suffering. The man has so much to endure, can endure the suffering that he himself seemed unbearable. But the hardest thing to endure is meaningless suffering. The whole being outraged against suffering is needless and intolerable. Too many people on earth believe their suffering is unjust, I do not understand why their share fall to a painful disease, bitter poverty, failure, infidelity, why do they have to suffer more than people who are not better than them, even much worse. The explanation of man's misery by original sin explains nothing, because it is addressed to "common" and not to "private." More happy and successful, at least suffer equally affected by original sin, as unfortunate and who suffer disproportionately. Setting the proportionality between suffering and sin, we become like the comforters of job. It is impossible to rationalize human destiny. This rationalization is forced to consider all fair and, in essence, denies the existence of evil. The challenge for the spiritual life, is not to explain and justify the suffering of life, and to enlighten and spiritually to survive. Carrying the cross means spiritually enlightened experience of suffering. You need to bear the cross of life and to facilitate the carrying of the cross to others, others.

Evil is completely irrational and baseless, it is not determined by sense and reason. You cannot ask what is the cause of evil, because evil begets peace necessary stiffness, in which everything is subject to causal relations. But the evil in his source associated with freedom, and not causality. Oddly enough, but the similarities with the evil spirit. And evil, and the spirit are a sign of freedom, while evil destroys the spirit and freedom. It is true that evil comes not from matter but from spirit. To say that the cause of evil is freedom, and it means to say that evil has no cause. Freedom means, in this case wanton. Only later, in its consequences, evil falls into the power of causality. Evil can be the cause but has no cause. Freedom is the ultimate mystery. Freedom is irrational. It equally gives rise to good and evil, chooses, and creates. It is impossible to develop a rational concept of freedom, any rational definition of killing her. This is what is called a limiting concept (Grenzbegriff). Evil has reasons and bases, it is freedom.