Tolstoy Quotation

[John Isham]

It appears that the quotation comes from the first Epilogue of *War
and Peace*, and that the words are spoken by Pierre to Natasha:

“— Я хотел сказать только, что все мысли, которые имеют огромные
последствия, — всегда просты. Вся моя мысль в том, что ежели люди
порочные связаны между собой и составляют силу, то людям честным
надо сделать то же самое. Ведь так просто."

You can find it quoted in the first footnote on the following webpage:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:vASXYBQLPikJ:magazines.russ.ru/novyi_mi/2001/10/gubai.html+%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%B7%D0%BB%D1%8B%D0%B5+%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B8+%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B+&hl=en&lr=lang_cs|lang_en|lang_fr|lang_de|lang_ru

John Isham

Квотироние Carol Ueland <CUELAND at DREW.EDU>:

> Dear SEELANGERS,
>
> A colleague in computer science found this quote attributed to
> Tolstoy
> on an animation website and wonders if it is accurately rendered
> and
> where it is from:
>
>
> Tolstoy said all great ideas are simple. If evil men can work
> together
> to get what they want, why can't good men work together to get
> what they
> want?
>
> Any ideas?  Thank you in advance.  Carol Ueland
>
>
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