The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.