English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Leo Tolstoy Quotes

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Leo Tolstoy

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Didn’t he have to admit, begrudgingly, that in some extra-perverse corner of his brain the idea of having to be out of town before sundown appealed to him? New Orleans had been the only constant thing in his life. But didn’t he yet an itchy foot sometimes, didn’t he sometimes think about just throwing all his stuff in his car and going? Of course he did. Everybody did, even normal people, the ones with triple mortgages and orthodontists’ bills and responsibilities to everything except what... Poppy Z. Brite
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also..."
Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. Laurell K. Hamilton
Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it. Andrew Lang
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first. Billy Wilder
Macy Gray quote: "I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth."
I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth. Macy Gray
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. Isabel Allende
Treat Williams quote: "The day my son was born my life changed completely."
The day my son was born my life changed completely. Treat Williams
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. Frank Herbert
The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing. Amy Grant
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. Mark Twain
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living. Tanya Tucker
Carl Sagan quote: "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of..."
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan
John Keats quote: "My chest of books divide amongst my friends--"
My chest of books divide amongst my friends-- John Keats
George Bernard Shaw quote: "The best way to get your point across is to entertain."
The best way to get your point across is to entertain. George Bernard Shaw