The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. – Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – 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
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