A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKYWhen work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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.
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Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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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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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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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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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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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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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
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