Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Justice
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher whose two great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are among the supreme achievements of world literature. This page collects quotes attributed to Leo Tolstoy on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Leo Tolstoy:
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
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“Martin's soul grew very very glad. He crossed himself put on his spectacles, and began reading the Gospel just where it had opened; and at the top of the page he read: I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in. And at the bottom of the page he read: Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren even these least, ye did it unto me (Matt. xxv). And Martin understood that his dream had come true; and that the Saviour had really come to him that day, and he had welcomed him.”
Where Love Is, God Is " (1885), also translated as "Where Love is, There God is Also" - (full text online) -
“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.”
War and Peace(1865–1867; 1869) | Bk. XIV, ch. 18 -
“There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.”
Anna Karenina(1875–1877; 1878) | Pt. VIII, ch. 19