Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Quote by Leo Tolstoy
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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Leo Tolstoy Quotes
- One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
- In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
- Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
- There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
- All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
- If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
- Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Best Quotes
- When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
- My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
- There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.