Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Maxim Gorky - Page 2

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?

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.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.

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.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

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.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt