Tag: Leo Tolstoy
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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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
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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
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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
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
Leo Tolstoy