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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
«In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty»
«Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity,
Country,
Doctrine,
Forgiveness,
Humility,
Love,
Punishment,
Violence,
War
| Keywords:
doctrine, haughtiness, incompatible
«The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Church,
Religion,
Superstition
| Keywords:
befog, churches, clergy, encouraged, monuments, processions, so-called, stupefaction, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, The Masses, The So
«The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
anarchists, an anarchist, assertion, assertions, existing, mistaken
«If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Conscience,
Meaning,
Reason
| Keywords:
consciences, dimming, existed, intolerable, One half
«If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Abstinence,
Life,
Right
| Keywords:
abstinence, earnestly, righteous
«The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
Brahmin, Brahmins, contain, Precepts, prediction, predictions, strongly, the books, the smallest
«If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Belief,
Life
| Keywords:
dissonance, everlasting, hold out, Old World
«And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Future,
Teenage
| Keywords:
arrange, five year old, loaded, pistols, toys
«Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Money,
Slavery
| Keywords:
distinguishable, Human Relations, impersonal, old master, Old Masters, relation