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 GORKYOur most merciless enemy is our past.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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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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Every new time will give its law.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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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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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
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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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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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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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