The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.
Leo TolstoyWoman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
Leo TolstoyFlesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
Leo TolstoyIt is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
Leo Tolstoy