The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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