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Contrary Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from…
- The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the…
- If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
- Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,…
- If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use…
- When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but…
- Commit no act that is contrary to love.
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's…
- The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a…
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- Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou
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