The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo TolstoyDrama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
Leo TolstoyI felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.
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 Tolstoy