Leo Tolstoy Wish Quotations

If one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.