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 GORKYLet 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.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
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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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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Every new time will give its law.
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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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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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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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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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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.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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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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