Leo Tolstoy

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

If you want to be happy, be.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.