
Leo Tolstoy
Nonviolence Advocate
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
The only guide for the Christian's actions is to be found in the divine principle living within him, which cannot be checked or governed by anything.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
The Vegetarian Movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because Vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.
We're inseparably united not only with all people, but with all living things.