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Leo Tolstoy Quotes about Peace

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Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

Forgiveness, Peace, Forgive And Forget

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Peace, Morning, Sleep

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.

Peace, War, Patriotism

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

Peace, Men, Ubuntu

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Inspirational, Karma, Peace

"The Law of Love and the Law of Violence". Treatise by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

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.

Peace, War, Independent

graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays, letters, miscellanies”

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Peace, Passion, Vegetarian Diet

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Peace, If You Love Me, Ifs

Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Anna Karenina”, p.222, Penguin UK

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Peace, Illusion, Has Beens

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Peace, War, Growth

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

Peace, Too Much, Instinct

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

Peace, Simple, Law

Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.248, Penguin UK

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Peace, War, Men

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Peace, War, Distance

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Peace, War, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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