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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Maxim Gorky

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
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
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
MAXIM GORKY

Bitter Guilty Oneself Search Truth
Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.
MAXIM GORKY

Easy Silence Simplicity Talk Terrible
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

Avoid Children Cruelty Fight Necessary People War
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
MAXIM GORKY

Past Yourself
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
MAXIM GORKY

Healing Soul Truth Wound
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
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
MAXIM GORKY

Contemporary Drink Writing
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
MAXIM GORKY

Freedom Lying Man Master Religion
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
MAXIM GORKY

Act Hungry Satisfaction
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
MAXIM GORKY

Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
MAXIM GORKY

Human Material Natural Process
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
MAXIM GORKY

Born Children Future Mom Thinking
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
MAXIM GORKY

Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY

Bad Brain Goodness Head Man Stupidity

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