Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, People, Evil

• Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life And Death, Evil, Joy

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1921). “A Confession: And, What I Believe”

• I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Evil, Want, Causes

• All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Government, Evil, Anarchy

• The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rain, Struggle, Mean

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Walk in the light while ye have light; Thoughts and aphorisims; Letters; Miscellanies”

• There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Evil, Way, Ends

• What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

• But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Evil, People

• Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Evil, Reform

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.491, Modern Library

• He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Men, Evil

• And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Light, Evil

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.656, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

• The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Evil, Important

• But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Evil, Done

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

• Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, People, Evil

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1899). “Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. [Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole]”

• People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Teaching, Men, Order

• Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, Evil, World

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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