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

The quotations of

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

1828–1910

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

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. And to act so is immoral.
Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good deed often can feed a person’s pride.
Path of Life (1909), p. 108
- Morality
- Pride
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing⁠—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Path of Life (1909), p. 210
- Morality
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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