Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

We 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.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

Do 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.