Quote #12

Lenin and Trotsky don't have any idea about freedom or human rights. They are already corrupted by dirty poison of the power, this is visible by their shameful disrespect of freedom of speech and all other civil liberties for which the democracy was fighting.

More from Maxim Gorky

  1. In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
  2. Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
  3. Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
  4. Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.
  5. Every new time will give its law.
  6. There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
  7. Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
  8. When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

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