Quote by Leo Tolstoy
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, espec

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

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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

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. – Leo Tolstoy

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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. – Leo Tolstoy

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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. – Wendell Willkie

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And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote

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Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. – Ellen Key

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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. – Arthur Henderson

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