quotes by Maxim Gorky

"When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid."
— Maxim Gorky

""Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself."
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— Maxim Gorky

""Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself." "
— Maxim Gorky

"You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better."
— Maxim Gorky

"Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public."
— Maxim Gorky (Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918)

"The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul."
— Maxim Gorky (Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918)

"I do not care to see men better off – but better!"
— Maxim Gorky

"Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man."
— Maxim Gorky (Lower Depths and Other Plays)

"The good qualities of our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul."
— Maxim Gorky (Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918)