We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. Leo Tolstoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Leo Tolstoy Read Quote
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. Leo Tolstoy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. Leo Tolstoy Read Quote