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«Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Rules
| Keywords:
capital punishment, fulfill, injuries, personal liberty, subjected
«Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
blows, compliance, govern, loss, murdered, non, organized, rule of law, subjected, The Rule of Law
«I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Mankind,
Unity
| Keywords:
boundaries, orders
«The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beautiful and his life bad.»
«Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Superstition
| Keywords:
excluding, Human sacrifice, imaginary, imaginary being, religious belief, religious beliefs, sacrifices, state of mind
«It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
God,
Race,
Truth
| Keywords:
fable, Fall of Man, incomprehensible, redeem, regarding, sacrilegious, The Fall, The Fall of Man, trinity, Virgin
«The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
immaterial, ownership, slave labor
«The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Psychology,
Questioning
| Keywords:
definite, fashionable, human activity, phenomena, physiological, psychological
«An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
agile, German, grandeur, mania, unintelligent
«whatever happens to be in style.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Style
| Keywords:
in style
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