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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
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.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
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.
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
