Daily Inspiration Quote by Maxim Gorky

Hope is doing two jobs here: it keeps people alive, and it keeps society from hardening into cruelty. Gorky frames aspiration as a shared human engine - "everybody lives for something better to come" - then pivots to the moral consequence of that fact. If everyone is reaching forward, then contempt becomes not just ugly but irrational. The line is an argument against the lazy certainty of judgment.

The phrasing matters. "My friend" softens what is basically a political claim, one rooted in Gorky's world of factory floors, rented rooms, and the Russian Empire's rigid sorting of souls into "worthy" and "waste". His fiction and public life were obsessed with the people official culture treated as disposable: workers, vagrants, the poor. The quote insists that even the most damaged person is animated by a future-facing desire. That is a radical revaluation in a society trained to read poverty as moral failure.

"Considerate of every man" sounds gentle, but the subtext is combustible: treat people with dignity because you cannot predict their latent power. "Who knows what's in him" turns humility into ethics. It also functions as a rebuke to elites and bureaucrats who mistake their categories for truth. Gorky doesn't romanticize suffering; he politicizes uncertainty. The unknowable interior life of "every man" becomes a reason to resist dehumanization, and to keep the door open to transformation - personal, social, revolutionary.