Category Quotations

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Men 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 Tolstoy Says: “Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I,…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “It’s too easy to criticize a man when he’s out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else’s mistakes.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “it’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.”