Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
MAXIM GORKYThe Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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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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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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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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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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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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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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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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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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One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
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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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What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.
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