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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy
Growth
Desire
Present
State
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy
Government
Men
Rest
Violence
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
Power
Patriotism
State
Suffering
Wrong
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy
Lie
Actions
Law
Limits
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy
Faith
Life
Virtue
Force
Man
Sense
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
World
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy
Death
Shadow
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
Truth
Growth
Gold
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy
War
Conscience
Ugly
Voice
Wage
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
Life