Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• [D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Hands

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy”

• Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Goal, Doe

• The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Humanity, Earth, Individual

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.329, Simon and Schuster

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