Maxim Gorky Men Quotations

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

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?

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

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

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

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

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.

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.

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.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

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

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

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