The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

Words without deeds are worthless.

I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.

We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

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.