Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. – Leo Tolstoy
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 ones reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people cant eat it. – Leo Tolstoy
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. – Leo Tolstoy
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. – Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. – Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. – Leo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. – Leo Tolstoy
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. – Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. – Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy
