"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us." ― Leo Tolstoy Topic(s): Death More From Leo Tolstoy "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite." "If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state." "To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it." More In Death "I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."― George Eliot "Perhaps we don’t need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That’s enough for me."― Brad Pitt