Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.