73 Quotes About War-and-peace

Tsar Alexander I was prone to tears and he did weep over Borodino, but not at Borodino, as Tolstoy would have it. This was definitely poetic licence. Alexander was never on the field at Borodino.

Anna Mikhaylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were kindhearted, and because they - friends from childhood - had to think about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... But those tears were pleasant to them both.

The coming era of Artificial Intelligence will not be the era of war, but be the era of deep compassion, non-violence, and love.

But in spacious, vigorous story-telling, in the use of an historical framework, in the relating of human events to a larger philosophical and spiritual context, in the deployment of fiction as a social and political weapon, in the exultation of 'the people' as a supreme authority, in the treatment of suffering as a dominant theme--in all these matters Hugo exerted a profound influence on Tolstoy.

Nuclear weapons free world is not a dream but a necessity for human survival. We need stop waiting for things to happen. We need to go ahead and make things happen.

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

But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.