Ilya Ehrenburg Quotes

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

There is no progress in art.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.