Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.