“Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a… — 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
“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar… — 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
“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
“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
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
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — 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
“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
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — 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
“Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — 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
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
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
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
“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Is it… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
![“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b01/leo-tolstoy-55_christian-truth_nothing-has-contributed-so-much-to-the-o_428484.jpg)
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