I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Leo TolstoyI did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
Leo TolstoyGovernments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.
Leo Tolstoy