The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.