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

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy - “War is so unjust and ugly that all who...” 1

Similar quotes

“A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.”

J.C. Ryle
Read more

“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. ”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Read more

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law”

Martin Luther King Jr.
Read more

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”

Jean-Paul Sartre
Read more

“We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.”

Laura Kasischke
Read more