The Real Test Of A Man Is

I Do Think Russian Foreign Policy Is Very Savvy. There's A Need For Great Caution Because The Russians Are Able To Discreetly Blackmail Countries.

I Think Its Important For One To Take A Certain Distance From Oneself.

The Previous Regime ... Reduced Man To A Means Of Production And Nature To A Tool Of Production. Thus It Attacked Both Their Very Essence And Their Mutual Relationship. It Reduced Gifted And Autonomous People To Nuts And Bolts In Some Monstrously Huge, Noisy, And Stinking Machine.

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.

Every Consession Gives Rise To Further Concessions, We Cannot Back Down, Because Behind Us There Is Only An Abyss, We Must Keep Our Promises And Demand That They Be Kept.