There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

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

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.