More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
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.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
