Paying our taxes

"Once the tax collectors came to Peter and asked him, 'What then, does your teacher not pay taxes?'

Peter said, 'No, he does not pay,' and he went and told Jesus that they had stopped him, and told him everyone is required to pay taxes.
Then Jesus said to him, 'The king doesn't collect taxes from his own sons, after all, and other than the king no one requires payments. Right? It is just the same with us. If we are the sons of God, then we are not obligated to anyone other than God and we are free from all other possible obligations. But if you are required to pay taxes, then pay them, and not because you are obligated to, but because you must not oppose evil. If not, then opposing evil will produce even greater evil.'" - Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel In Brief, pg. 114

Unprofitable servants

"If people think they can be all-powerful masters of life, that life is given to them for the lust of the flesh, then it is obvious that every act of sacrifice for another will seem to them a deed worthy of a reward and without reward they will not do anything. . . . One must understand that man can do nothing on his own and that if he gives away his mortal life for the good, then there should be no thanks or reward expected." - Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief, pg. 96

Civil government cannot be obeyed at all

"If your officer commands you to kill your neighbor's child, to kill your father or your mother, would you obey? If you would not obey, the whole argument falls to the ground, for if you can disobey the governors in one case, where do you draw the line up to which you can obey them? There is no line than that laid down by Christianity, and that line is both reasonable and practicable." - Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You, pg. 15

There is a difference between the Revolutionist Anarchist and the Christian Anarchist

"But what are governments to do against men who show the uselessness, superfluous, and perniciousness of all governments, and do not contend against them, but simply do not need them and do without them, and therefore are unwilling to take any part in them? The revolutionists say: The form of government is bad in this respect and that respect; we must overturn it and substitute this or that form of government. The Christian says: I know nothing about the form of government, I don't know whether it is good or bad, and I don't want to overturn it precisely because I don't know whether it is good or bad, but for the very same reason I don't want to support it either. And I not only don't want to, but I can't, because what it demands of me is against my conscience." - Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You, pg. 137

Government and peace are antithetical

"Now there is something more for the government to encourage - peace. The sovereigns, who nowadays take counsel with their ministers, decide by their will alone whether the butchery of millions is to be begum this year or next. They know very well that all these discourses upon peace will not hinder them from sending millions of men to butchery when it seems good to them. They listen even with satisfaction to these discourses, encourage them, and take part in them. All this, far from being detrimental, is even of service to governments, by turning people's attention from the most important and pressing question: Ought or ought not each man called upon for military service to submit to serve in the army?" - Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You, pg. 89-90

The government is antithetical to freedom

"In the same way [governments] pretend to support temperance societies, while they are living principally on the drunkenness of the people; and pretend to encourage education, when their whole strength is based on ignorance; and to support constitutional freedom, when their strength rests on the absence of freedom; and to be anxious for the improvement of the condition of the working classes, when their very existence depends on their oppression; and to support Christianity, whem Christianity destroys all government." - Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within you, pg. 89

Christians have only one master

Daniel Musser "concludes his book by saying: 'Christians do not need government, and therefore they cannot either obey it in what is contrary to Christ's teaching nor, still less, take part in it.' Christ took his disciples out of the world, he says. They do not expect worldly blessings and worldly happiness, but they expect eternal life. The Spirit in whom they live makes them contented and happy in every position. If the world tolerates them, they are always happy. If the world will not leave them in peace, they will go elsewhere, since they are pilgrims on the earth and they have no fixed place of habitation. They believe that 'the dead may bury their dead.' One thing only is needful for them, 'to follow their master.' - Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You, pg. 16

Non-Resistance and obeying evil government

"If we abide evil by our fundamental principle of not opposing evil by evil we cannot participate in sedition, treason, or violence. We shall submit to every ordinance and every requirement of government, except such as are contrary to the commands of the Gospel, and in no case resist the operation of the law, except by meekly submitting to the penalty of disobedience." - William Lloyd Garrison, Declaration of Sentiments Adopted By Peace Convention, found in Leo Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You", pg. 6