The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

We must re-learn to be alone.

Every good and great idea must have a good window and doors

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.