You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
MAXIM GORKYYou will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
MAXIM GORKYIn 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?
MAXIM GORKYAll of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
MAXIM GORKYThe revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKYHappiness 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.
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.
MAXIM GORKYWhen the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
MAXIM GORKYEvery new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKYHunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
MAXIM GORKYAnger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYWith his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKYAn honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYGod 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.
MAXIM GORKYAn artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
MAXIM GORKYThere 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.
MAXIM GORKYOur most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY