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)
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility
to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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.
~ Leo Tolstoy
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
~ Leo Tolstoy
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
~ 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.
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