"Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and w...

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
"I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
"Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have...