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There Is Only One Art, Whose Sole Criterion Is The Power, The Authenticity, The Revelatory Insight, The Courage And Suggestiveness With Which It Seeks Its Truth. ... Thus, From The Standpoint Of The Work And Its Worth It Is Irrelevant To Which Political Ideas The Artist As A Citizen Claims Allegiance, Which Ideas He Would Like To Serve With His Work Or Whether He Holds Any Such Ideas At All.

It's Not Hard To Stand Behind One's Successes. But To Accept Responsibility For One's Failures... That Is Devishly Hard!

I Believe That During The Intervention Of Nato In Kosovo There Is An Element Nobody Can Question: The Air Attacks, The Bombs, Are Not Caused By A Material Interest. Their Character Is Exclusively Humanitarian: What Is At Stake Here Are The Principles, Human Rights Which Have Priority Above State Sovereignty. This Makes It Legitimate To Attack The Yugoslav Federation, Although Without The United Nations Mandate.

Without Commonly Shared And Widely Entrenched Moral Values And Obligations, Neither The Law, Nor Democratic Government, Nor Even The Market Economy Will Function Properly.

I Have Read Somewhere That In A Totalitarian System Martyrdom Does Better Than Thought.