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There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Leo Tolstoy
Evil, Way, Ends

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

Leo Tolstoy
War, People, Evil

Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

Leo Tolstoy
War, People, Evil
graf Leo Tolstoy (1899). “Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. [Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole]”

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Leo Tolstoy
Life And Death, Evil, Joy
graf Leo Tolstoy (1921). “A Confession: And, What I Believe”

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

Leo Tolstoy
Thinking, Evil, People

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Leo Tolstoy
Evil, Want, Causes

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Leo Tolstoy
Government, Evil, Anarchy

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Leo Tolstoy
Men, Evil, Reform
Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.491, Modern Library

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

Leo Tolstoy
Book, Light, Evil
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.656, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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.

Leo Tolstoy
Men, Evil, Important

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

Leo Tolstoy
Men, Evil, Done
Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Leo Tolstoy
Believe, Men, Evil

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

Leo Tolstoy
Law, Evil, World
Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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