All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death — Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic — Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. — Leo Tolstoy
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation — Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. — 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