Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, primarily known as MaximGorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths, Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 March 1868
CountryRussian Federation
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
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.
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.