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?
MAXIM GORKYPolitics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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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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When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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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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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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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.
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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?
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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Every new time will give its law.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
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Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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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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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
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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.
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