Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth remains our solid Rock.

We’re constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity.

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

Men forget everything; women remember everything.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.