Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKYWe kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Every new time will give its law.
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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