Leo Tolstoy Quotes
… my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders
Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Russian Writer & Philosopher, My Religion, 1885
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Alexander had an unusual absence of nationalism or even pride of his Macedonian customs and culture. His adolescent teacher was Aristotle whose broad education made Alexander a great conqueror and ruler of different races, cultures and religions. He turned the world, literally and figuratively, into his country and in order to rule over such a vast area, he had to depend on people of different races, religions, customs, and cultures. The diversity and multiculturalism of his empire with the paucity of racism and discrimination by the conquerors has never been reached again.
America before WWII had a substantial conservative isolationist minority. After the war, there were far fewer isolationists but there were still some members of Congress who didn’t want America to be involved in International Affairs.
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 9 September, 1828 – 20 November, 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. That he never won is a major controversy.
