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.
MAXIM GORKYIt is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Every new time will give its law.
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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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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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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