Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
Leo TolstoyTalent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
Leo TolstoySlavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.
Leo Tolstoy