“And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
When you're about to fix everyone else.
This line comes on
About this line
The late Tolstoy — having renounced the copyright on his later work and handed his estate to his family — reducing a lifetime of failed reform to a single sentence. He’d earned the right to say it.
Why we carry this line
We all think everyone around us needs to change. We forget when we’re finger pointing, one finger points back, squarely in our own chests. And that is exactly why it’s here.
A note on the excerpt
Our tee prints the sentence from “everybody” on. The ellipsis marks the cut. Tolstoy’s sentence opens “And yet in our world.”
The design
HUMANITY is the largest word on the shirt. “himself.” is the smallest word that matters, and the only one in warm matte gold. Everybody looks at the big word. Tolstoy’s point is the small one.
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