War and Peace Quotes

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”

“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.”

“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

“By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.”

“The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.”

“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. Only deeds of truth, by introducing light into the conscience of each individual, can dissolve the cohesion of error, and detach men one by one from the mass united together by the cohesion of error.”

“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.”

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”

“I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.”

“Six feet of land was all that he needed.”

“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”

“The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.”

“Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.”

“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.”

“Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live”

“There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.”

“Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly beautiful.”

“He did not, and could not, understand the meaning of words apart from their context. Every word and action of his was the manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life.”

“To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.”

“For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”