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Leo Tolstoy — Portrait after a picture by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

1828–1910

31 quotes, most often on Love, God and Morality.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.
Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (October 12, 1896), translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
- Christianity
- Government
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.
Christianity and Patriotism (1895), as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï, Vol. 20, p. 44
- Government
- War & Peace
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
The Meaning of the Russian Revolution (1906), a work about the 1905 Russian Revolution.
- Government
- Morality

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