But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Music is love in search of a voice.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.