In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
