“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.”

— Leo Tolstoy, My Religion (1884)

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.”

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

“The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government.”

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.”

“seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here”

“The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.”

“It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.”