“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”
Death
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
War“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Change“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Death“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Love“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.”
Life“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Government“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.”
Men“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Love“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Change“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Art“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
Life“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Music“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.”
Patriotism“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Family“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.”
Art“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Amazing“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.”
God“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Truth“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Truth