Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKYLies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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!
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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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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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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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