People Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

— Leo Tolstoy

Happy people have no history.

— Leo Tolstoy

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

— Leo Tolstoy

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

— Leo Tolstoy

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

— Leo Tolstoy

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

— Leo Tolstoy

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

— Leo Tolstoy

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

— Leo Tolstoy

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

— Leo Tolstoy

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to…

— Leo Tolstoy

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is…

— Leo Tolstoy

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

— Leo Tolstoy

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these…

— Leo Tolstoy

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found…

— Leo Tolstoy

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your…

— Leo Tolstoy

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not…

— Leo Tolstoy

Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is…

— Leo Tolstoy

So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred…

— Leo Tolstoy

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow,…

— Leo Tolstoy

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating…

— Leo Tolstoy

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object…

— Leo Tolstoy

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their…

— Leo Tolstoy

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could…

— Leo Tolstoy

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when…

— Leo Tolstoy

But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will…

— Leo Tolstoy

The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its…

— Leo Tolstoy

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that…

— Leo Tolstoy

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his…

— Leo Tolstoy

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

— Leo Tolstoy

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

— Leo Tolstoy

The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people.

— Leo Tolstoy

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

— Leo Tolstoy

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

— Leo Tolstoy