154 ordspråk av Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy föddes den
9 September 1828 och dog den 20 November
1910 - notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. 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
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty
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In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice
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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty
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It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.
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Ivan Ilyich's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible.
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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness
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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness
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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness
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Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.
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