I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.