Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Topics: Forgiveness Quotes, Humility Quotes, Love Quotes

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle...

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle...

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe...

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe...

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a...

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a...

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to...

The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to...

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological...

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological...

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state,...

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state,...

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by...

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by...

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do...

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do...

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away...

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away...

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby...

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby...

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not...

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not...

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of...

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of...

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a...

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a...

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate...

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate...