Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Law, Suffering

  Harvey Carr, George Williams Peckham, Mrs. Elizabeth (Gifford) Peckham, John Knight Munro Berry, William Warner Bishop (1887). “Pamphlets in philology and the humanities”

• The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Work, People, Political

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1899). “The Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi”

• Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Thinking

• Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Men, Poverty

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.86, 1909.

• Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Light, Purses, Poverty

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.88, 1909.

• All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ignorance, Men, Effort

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1371, Modern Library

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