Who will dare say he has defined art?

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.