Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.