Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Ilya Ehrenburg, fully Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg

Russian Novelist, Poet

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

"I have come to hate war not only because it kills off the flower of every nation, but because it destroys spiritual as well as material values."