The Inevitable Revolution Quotes

“If only each of us would grasp this he would immediately grasp the fact that the cause of the suffering of ourselves and of all the world lies not in whatever evils are committed by men, guilty of wrong-doing, but in one thing alone: in the fact that men live in conditions of life, made up of violence, conditions contrary to love, incompatible with it, and that is the reason for that evil from which we all suffer, not in men, but in that false arrangement of life on violence, which men consider inevitable.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution

“If only each of us would grasp this he would immediately grasp the fact that the cause of the suffering of ourselves and of all the world lies not in whatever evils are committed by men, guilty of wrong-doing, but in one thing alone: in the fact that men live in conditions of life, made up of violence, conditions contrary to love, incompatible with it, and that is the reason for that evil from which we all suifer, not in men, but in that false arrangement of life on violence, which men consider inevitable.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution

“Glance into that most sacred place, into your heart and ask yourself what is necessary for you, your real self in order to live through in the best manner those hours or decades which may still lie before you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution

“Men should believe in the law of love in the same way that they now believe in the inevitability of violence.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution

“In our power are only our actions themselves.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution

“What am I to do in order to improve my life?”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution

“To protect a child from being killed it is always possible to put one’s own breast beneath the blow of the killer, but this thought, natural for a man, guided by love, cannot enter the heads of people living by violence, because for these men there are not and cannot be any others beside brutes— impelled to activity.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution

“All religious-moral questions are decided not by consideration of what is more advantageous, but by that which a man recognizes good and what is evil, what is a duty and what is not.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution

“Everyone asks how the life of men ought to be arranged, that is, what to do with other people? Everyone asks what is to be done with others, but nobody asks what is to be done with me myself?”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Inevitable Revolution