“Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love.”

— Leo Tolstoy, Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (12 October 1896)

About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”