“But in the course of the war they waged against the taiga, scorching it with fire, and attacking it with iron, Makar’s… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“knew that the result of a battle is decided not by the orders of a commander in chief, nor the place where… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though they would have been… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“wisdom needs no violence...As it is we have played at war – that’s what’s vile! We play at magnanimity and all that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If there were no magnanimity in war, we'd go to it only when it was worth going to certain death, as now.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — 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 Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Image
