Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Torture

Quotes about: Torture

• The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Sex, Men

• Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Hate, Purpose, World

  Elizabeth Gunn, Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “A daring coiffeur: reflections on War and peace and Anna Karenina”, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

• 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

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