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?
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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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What 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.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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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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