64 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy about Men

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    Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

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    The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

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    Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

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    Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

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    Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

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    God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

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    Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

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    Slavery 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.

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    If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

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