We Must Not Be Afraid Of Dreaming

A State That Denies Its Citizens Their Basic Rights Becomes A Danger To Its Neighbors As Well: Internal Arbitrary Rule Will Be Reflected In Arbitrary External Relations. The Suppression Of Public Opinion, The Abolition Of Public Competition For Power And Its Public Exercise Opens The Way For The State Power To Arm Itself In Any Way It Sees Fit.... A State That Does Not Hesitate To Lie To Its Own People Will Not Hesitate To Lie To Other States.

There Is Only One Art, Whose Sole Criterion Is The Power, The Authenticity, The Revelatory Insight, The Courage And Suggestiveness With Which It Seeks Its Truth. ... Thus, From The Standpoint Of The Work And Its Worth It Is Irrelevant To Which Political Ideas The Artist As A Citizen Claims Allegiance, Which Ideas He Would Like To Serve With His Work Or Whether He Holds Any Such Ideas At All.

Without Free, Self-respecting, And Autonomous Citizens There Can Be No Free And Independent Nations. Without Internal Peace, That Is, Peace Among Citizens And Between The Citizens And The State, There Can Be No Guarantee Of External Peace.

I Cannot Imagine That I Could Strive For Something If I Did Not Carry Hope In Me.

To Serve Grand Ideas With A Major Work Is Not Bad, Nor Is It All There's To Art.