Leo Tolstoy Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Motivational, Patience

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

• If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Would Be, Conviction

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, Xist Publishing

• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays, letters, miscellanies”

• 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

• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

• Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Christian, War

• Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, War, Responsibility

  "Anna Karenina".

• War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Moving, Thinking

• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Patriotism

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

• You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Special, Storm

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.866, 谷月社

• War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Voice, Trying

• 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

• 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

• Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Book, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What Men Live By and Other Tales”, p.39, Xist Publishing

• [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”

• We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Growth

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

• Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Men

• 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]”

• Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Distance

• It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Should Have, Games

• War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Lying, Games

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

• War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Play, Things In Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.886, Modern Library

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