Creatures That Once Were Men Quotes

“I will go there, and I will work my way until I become the President of the United States, and then I will challenge the whole of Europe to war and I will blow it up! I will buy the army ... in Europe that is—I will invite the French, the Germans, the Turks, and so on, and I will kill them by the hands of their own relatives... Just as Elia Marumets bought a Tartar with a Tartar.”
― Maxim Gorky, Creatures That Once Were Men

“A man who has good in him does not mind sometimes showing his worse nature.”
― Maxim Gorky, Creatures That Once Were Men

“society of "creatures that once were men" had one fine characteristic—no one of them endeavoured to make out that he was better than the others, nor compelled the others to acknowledge his superiority.”
― Maxim Gorky, Creatures That Once Were Men

“Every one of them felt keen animosity towards all those who were well fed and well dressed, but in some of them this feeling was only beginning to develop.”
― Maxim Gorky, Creatures That Once Were Men

“The mysterious, all-destroying reaper, called Death, made up his mind to finish the terrible work quickly, as if insulted by the presence of this drunken man at the dark and solemn struggle.”
― Maxim Gorky, Creatures That Once Were Men