The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God.

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.