I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
More Quotes from Leo Tolstoy:
In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated.Leo Tolstoy
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.
Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice
Leo Tolstoy
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes -- love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.
Leo Tolstoy
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: tormentorAge affects how people experience time.
Edward T. Hall
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.
Paul Hawken
I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais