Leo Tolstoy Quotes, People Quotes, Rude Quotes

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

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Music is love in search of a voice.

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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

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Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

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History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

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Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

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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.

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He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

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The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

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