The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forc...es--in nature, in society, in man himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly vi...olent cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you... a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they ...are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on--into the dustbi...n of history!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his ...voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its h...and on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »