Quote by Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy

Other quotes by 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, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. – Leo Tolstoy

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Health
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. – Leo Tolstoy

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Being in Love
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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. – Ernst Moritz Arndt

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When Im lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. – Steven Morrissey

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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. – Jose Marti

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I dont believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. – Woody Allen

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. – W. H. Auden

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I dont like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. Im a teen actress and therefore Im competing against Hilary Duff. Were different people like everyone else. – Amanda Bynes

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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? – Henry Miller

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