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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
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.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
