Too Much Art Was No Art At

Our Twentieth Century Has Proved To Be More Cruel Than Preceding Centuries, And The First Fifty Years Have Not Erased All Its Horrors. Our World Is Rent Asunder By Those Same Old Cave-age Emotions Of Greed, Envy, Lack Of Control, Mutual Hostility Which Have Picked Up In Passing Respectable Pseudonyms Like Class Struggle, Radical Conflict, Struggle Of The Masses, Trade-union Disputes.

If We Could All Take A Sober Look At Our History, Then We Would No Longer See This Nostalgic Attitude To The Soviet Past That Predominates Among The Less Affected Part Of Our Society.

On Our Crowded Planet There Are No Longer Any Internal Affairs!

The Intellectual Is Not Defined By Professional Group And Type Of Occupation. Nor Are Good Upbringing And A Good Family Enough In Themselves To Produce An Intellectual. An Intellectual Is A Person Whose Interest In And Preoccupation With The Spiritual Side Of Life Are Insistent And Constant And Not Forced By External Circumstances, Even Flying In The Face Of Them. An Intellectual Is A Person Whose Thought Is Nonimitative.

Any Man Who Has Once Acclaimed Violence As His Method Must Inexorably Choose Falsehood As His Principle.