An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYGod 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.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Every new time will give its law.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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 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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