If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

Under the seams runs the pain.

The ability to adapt is everything!

A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.