Quote by Leo Tolstoy
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. – Leo Tolstoy

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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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

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Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. – James Frederick Green

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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. – Daisaku Ikeda

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