The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.
Leo TolstoyAnd that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.
Leo TolstoyMen pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
Leo TolstoyPower, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.
Leo Tolstoy