All Leo Tolstoy Quotes
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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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.
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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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 one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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