“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”– Leo Tolstoy Related Quotes “He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.”– Isaac Asimov “When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”– Warren Farrell “Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”– Ella Wheeler Wilcox