Leo Tolstoy Needs Quotations

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.