Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Mean Quotes, Patriotism Quotes

But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

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Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

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Honest work is much better than a mansion.

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Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

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Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

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The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

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Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

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There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

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Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

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In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

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Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

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In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

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The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

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