What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.