An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYWe 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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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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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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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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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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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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