The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
MAXIM GORKYWhat can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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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 most merciless enemy is our past.
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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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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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To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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Let 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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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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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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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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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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