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Men Quotes by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
- In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are…
- In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power…
- Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them…
- Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and…
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