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 History
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 Change
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 Alone
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 War
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. -Leo Tolstoy Happiness
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 Death
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. -Leo Tolstoy Happiness
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 War
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy Truth
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 Food
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. -Leo Tolstoy Art
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 Men
