Leo Tolstoy

“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.”

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”

“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”