Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy

Death, Two, Shadow

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

Love, Live, Care

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy

Lie, Law, Within

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

War, Try, Conscience

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

Time, Men, Live

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy

Stupid, Abnormal, Nietzsche

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

Patriotism, Power, Suffering

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy

Opinion, Whatever, Happens

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

Life, Nature, Living

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Leo Tolstoy

Lost, Ourselves

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.
Leo Tolstoy

War, Christian, Hand

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

Death, Others, Suffering

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.
Leo Tolstoy

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Humanity, Lives, Himself

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy

Desire, State, Growth

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Born: September 9, 1828

Died: November 20, 1910

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