Maxim Gorky Quotes - Page 3

Every new time will give its law.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

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.

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.

There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

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.

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.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

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.

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

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

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.