Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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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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Every new time will give its law.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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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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