Maxim Gorky

"Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man — who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?"

"There's a little book I'm thinking of writing — "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation…"

"Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber."

"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."

"Gorky Archive at Marxists.org"

"If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States."

"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."

"One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty."