Maxim Gorky - Man Quotes

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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?

Maxim Gorky

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

Maxim Gorky

The basic hero of our books should be labor; that is, man organized by the processes of labor.

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How marvelous is Man! How proud the word rings — Man!

Maxim Gorky

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

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Science is humanity's superior reason, the sun which man has created of his own flesh and blood and has lit to illuminate the darkness of his hard life and to show the way to freedom, justice, and beauty.

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