Leo Tolstoy – Purpee Quotes

War is so unjust and ugly that

Posted on August 26, 2018August 26, 2005 by admin

“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Category: war
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In all history there is no war

Posted on August 23, 2018August 23, 2005 by admin

“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.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Category: war
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Our body is a machine for living.

Posted on March 15, 2018March 15, 2005 by admin

“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Category: nature
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Art is not a handicraft, it is

Posted on October 5, 2017October 5, 2012 by admin

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Category: art
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The changes in our life must come

Posted on September 12, 2017September 12, 2012 by admin

“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.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Category: life
Tags: life, Leo Tolstoy