Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The whole village has been drunk for the last three days. And as for feast days, it is simply horrible to think… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“During the first, in 1857, he forced himself to witness a public execution in Paris, and the sight shook him so deeply… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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