What Shall we do? by Leo Tolstoy

But what is to be done, then? We did not do it, did we? And if not we, who did?

We say, "It is not we who have done all this; it has been done of itself"; as children say when they break anything, that "it broke itself. " We say that, as towns are already in existence, we, who are living there, must feed men by buying their labour. But that is not true. It need only be observed how we live in the country, and how we feed people there.