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

Topics: Death Quotes

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to...

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to...

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.

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...

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...

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth

If you want to be happy, be

If you want to be happy, be

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...

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...

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but...

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but...

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...

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the...

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the...

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

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

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which...

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which...

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...

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the...

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the...

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with...

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with...