Leo Tolstoy

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

Leo Tolstoy

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Leo Tolstoy

Happy people have no history.

Leo Tolstoy

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Leo Tolstoy

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

Leo Tolstoy

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

Leo Tolstoy

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one’s enemies we need divine love.

Leo Tolstoy