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Leo Tolstoy Quotes & Sayings

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
- Leo Tolstoy

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

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
- Leo Tolstoy

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

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

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

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
- Leo Tolstoy

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
- Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- Leo Tolstoy

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

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