Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
MAXIM GORKYIn the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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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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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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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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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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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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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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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Every new time will give its law.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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