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 TolstoyIt seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuriesโand that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.
Leo TolstoyWhere there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.
Leo Tolstoy