Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Conscience

• El mal no deja de estar mal porque la mayoría lo comparta.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mayoría, Doe, Cambiar de vida

  "Una Confesión". Libro de Leo Tolstoy, 1882.

• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ambition, Mean, Patriotism

• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). "El reino de Dios: y ensayos de paz".

• The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Son, Men, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

• Los cambios en nuestra vida deben provenir de la imposibilidad de vivir de otra manera que no sea según las exigencias de nuestra conciencia, no de nuestra resolución mental de intentar una nueva forma de vida.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Vida, Cambio, Pensamiento Profundo

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). "Las cartas de Tolstoi: 1880-1910"

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Voice, Trying

• If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Compassion, Diversity

• If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Men, Half

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.146, e-artnow

• The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, Two, May

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.5496, Delphi Classics

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