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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 26

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Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

Men, Self, Law

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Lying, Writing, Negative

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

Men, Errors, Together

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Lying, Believe, Knowledge

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

Beautiful, Men, Space

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

Mankind, Subjects

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

Want, Life Happiness, Said

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.122, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Reason

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.352, Vintage

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

Sincerity, Teach

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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.

Mean, Men, Half

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.146, e-artnow

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

War, Men, Hands

graf Leo Tolstoy (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy”

God knows, but He's waiting

Waiting, God Knows, Knows

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Power

Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.1285, Oxford University Press

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

Struggle, Past, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.620, e-artnow

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

Fashion

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.553, Vintage

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

Heart, People, Judging

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

Men, Evil, Important

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

Children, Believe, Future

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.127, e-artnow

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Time, Live In The Moment, Important

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

Men, Life Is, Labor

Graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “What Shall We Do?”, p.450, Library of Alexandria

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

Children, Spring, Pride

Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.86, Penguin UK

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

Baby, Children, Distance

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Peace, War, Men

It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

Fall, Men, Organization

graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays and Letters”

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

Littles, Ethical, Simplest

Elizabeth Gunn, Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “A daring coiffeur: reflections on War and peace and Anna Karenina”, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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