The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

Which of us can control his feelings?

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?