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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?

Maxim Gorky

You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY

Hide Meaning Philosophy Yourself
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Care Love Oneself
An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
MAXIM GORKY

Artist Convince Form Impression Man Subjective
An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY

Brain Honesty Idiot Man Right
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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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
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 GORKY

Class Force Growth Intellectual
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKY

Man Praise Whole Woman Word
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!
MAXIM GORKY

Believe Goodness Man Myself Teaching
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKY

Brother Himself Live Money Person
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Action Feeling Grave Kill Myself Word
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.
MAXIM GORKY

Big Hands Happiness Hold Precious Small
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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Complex Feeling Form God Individual Link Organization Social
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
MAXIM GORKY

Charity Goodness Humanity Kindness Sorry Wrong
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY

Avoid Carry Function Politics Public
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY

Dog Kill Master Oneself

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 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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