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.
MAXIM GORKYWhat I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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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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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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