Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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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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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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