Quotes from Maxim Gorky

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

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

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

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

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.

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

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

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

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

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.

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

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

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.

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.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

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.

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

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?

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

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.

Every new time will give its law.

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.