Maxim Gorky Quotes

• Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Politics

• Lies are the religion of slaves and bosses. Truth is the god of the free man.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Truth

• You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Write, Better

• You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hidden, Philosophy

• When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Joy, Life, Work

  Tags in Slavery

• 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.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Love

• When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Stupid

• What ‘jazz’ means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term ‘jazz’ has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

  Maxim Gorky

  Tags in Prejudice, Musician

• 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.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accept, Earth

• The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Language

• Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Children, Future, Mother

  Tags in Think

• One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Girl

• Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Write, Drink

• In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Past

• In the carriages of the past you can’t go anywhere.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Past

• Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Precious, Learn

• 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 Gorky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Friend, Man

• A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Good, Man

• 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.

  Maxim Gorky

  Topics in Love

Maxim Gorky (19)

Birth:	16th March, 1868
Death:	18th June, 1936
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Activist, Dramatist, Politician, Writer

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