An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYYou will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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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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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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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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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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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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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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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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