Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism

Humans had to evolve what no other primate had: a sense of identity with a group so powerful that it could swallow up the individual identity, at least to a la…

Everything I ever felt myself to be a part of is dead

Humans feel compassion primarily for those they conceive of as being part of themselves

What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for …

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.

Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.