Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
peace distance justice
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
peace men order
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
peace simple illumination
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered....
peace men violence
Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
thinking peaceful charm
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
peace war growth
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
peace if-you-love-me ifs
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
peace illusion has-beens
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
peace too-much instinct
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
peace passion vegetarian-diet
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
peace war independent
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.
peace war patriotism
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.
inspirational karma peace
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
peace morning sleep
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.