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 GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free 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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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