1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

...Nekhlúdoff clearly saw that all these people were arrested, locked up, exiled, not really because they transgressed against justice or behaved unlawfully, but only because they were an obstacle hindering the officials and the rich from enjoying the property they had taken away from the people.

Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.

Is anything--not even happiness but just not torment--possible?

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.

Abbiamo sviluppato l'arte di conservarci assolutamente ignoranti apparendo saccenti.

Scommetto la testa che non troverete uno studente di liceo classico che abbia letto per sé, per suo piacere, Senofonte o Cicerone, con cui l'hanno tormentato per otto anni.

Russia alone is to be the savior of Europe.