The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat...

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat...

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men...

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men...

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are,...

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are,...

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

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

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to...

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to...

If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very...

If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very...

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...

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force....

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force....

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.

I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.

If you want to be happy, be

If you want to be happy, be

If you want to be happy, be.

If you want to be happy, be.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is...

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he...

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he...