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If By Believing You Mean Praying To An Anthropomorphic Deity Who Created The World And Half Controls It And Half Observes It, Then I Am Probably Not A Believer. But If You Mean That It Is Not All Accidental, That There Is A Mystery To Existence, A Deeper Meaning, That I Do Believe In.

There Is Only One Art, Whose Sole Criterion Is The Power, The Authenticity, The Revelatory Insight, The Courage And Suggestiveness With Which It Seeks Its Truth. ... Thus, From The Standpoint Of The Work And Its Worth It Is Irrelevant To Which Political Ideas The Artist As A Citizen Claims Allegiance, Which Ideas He Would Like To Serve With His Work Or Whether He Holds Any Such Ideas At All.

Truth Is Not Merely What We Are Thinking, But Also Why, To Whom And Under What Circumstances We Say It.

Those Who Rebelled Against Totalitarian Rule And Those Who Simply Managed To Remain Themselves And Think Freely, Were All Persecuted. We Should Not Forget Any Of Those Who Paid For Our Present Freedom In One Way Or Another.

I Really Do Inhabit A System In Which Words Are Capable Of Shaking The Entire Structure Of Government, Where Words Can Prove Mightier Than 10 Military Divisions.