Leo Tolstoy Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.”

“The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.”

“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”

“We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.”

“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”

“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”

“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”

“War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.”

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”