A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 3
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 3
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 2
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 1
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 1
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. Leo Tolstoy Russian Novelist More Leo Tolstoy Quotes 0