Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

If you want to be happy, be.

Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

Love those you hate you.