Russian author, essayist and philosopher.
He is one of the world's pre-eminent writers becoming famous through his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Towards the end of his life, Leo Tolstoy became increasingly interested in a version of pacifist Christianity with support
for a strand of anarchist Communism. His exposition of pacifism, vegetarianism and non-violence had a profound influence on famous
personalities like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi considered Leo Tolstoy to be "the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced".
(1828-1910)
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The strongest of all warriors are these two - time and patience.
~ Leo Tolstoy
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and
narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be.
~ Leo Tolstoy
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge
as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He was an American activist, clergyman, and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon.
In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial discrimination, racial segregation and decided
to turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to
lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
(1929 - 1968)
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~ Aldous Huxley
Think for yourself, and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so, too.
~ VoltaireMore Proverbs
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