You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya EhrenburgKnowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya EhrenburgWe know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.
Ilya EhrenburgDo not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.
Ilya Ehrenburg