"All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately,…"

"I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by…"

"Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their o…"

"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

"What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with…"

"Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!"

"I know you are brave and unselfish people, making sacrifices for a great principle but I cannot join you. I believe i…"

"I have lived in Germany and know its language and literature, and the spirit and ideals of its rulers. Having given m…"

"American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same i…"

"I wrote with tears and anguish, pouring into the pages all that pain which life had meant to me. Externally the story…"