I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
Leo TolstoyIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
Leo TolstoyIt 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 TolstoyThe Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
Leo Tolstoy