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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
«The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Patriotism,
Time
| Keywords:
advocated, advocating, approaching, be born, classes, deepest, fast, happened, have happened, insult, interest, Interesting Times, offer, particular, patriot, patriotism, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, privileged, system, The Advocate, The Patriot
«Was it by reason that I attained the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason!»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
attained, believed, gladly, neighbour, The Knowledge, throttle, throttled
«We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
accustom, accustomed, atrocities, atrocity, Christian, Christian church, Christian Churches, church, cruelties, cruelty, notice, permeated, religious, stupidity, surrounds, teaching, The Christian
«Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Body,
Machines
| Keywords:
defend, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, machine, organized, paralyze, paralyzes, paralyzing, remedies, unhindered
«In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
granted, precisely, present time, subjugate, subjugated, taken for granted, The State
«Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Prejudice,
Study
| Keywords:
central, central issues, fallacies, issues, previous, The central
«Why must children die? I have reached the conclusion that the only purpose in the life of every man is to strengthen love within himself, and by strengthening it within himself, to infect other people with it»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
conclusion, infect, infected, infecting, infects, reached, strengthen, strengthening, The Conclusion
«In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
definition, establish, obedience, organized, secures, The Question