“Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It’s escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It’s one more for trying to be less.”

In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.

It’s become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.