Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
MAXIM GORKYProcessing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
-
-
The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
MAXIM GORKY -
Every new time will give its law.
MAXIM GORKY -
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 -
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 -
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
MAXIM GORKY -
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
MAXIM GORKY -
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKY -
The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
MAXIM GORKY -
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
MAXIM GORKY -
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY -
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
MAXIM GORKY -
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKY -
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
MAXIM GORKY -
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.
MAXIM GORKY -
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
MAXIM GORKY