159 Quotes by Maxim Gorky

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?

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

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

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

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.

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

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