Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
MAXIM GORKYYou will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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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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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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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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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
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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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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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