Leo Tolstoy

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• Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?

  • Faith

• 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

• 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)

  • Animals
  • Food
  • Morality

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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