The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.