In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

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.

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

Far more important than being the first, be willing to settle for the best.

Freedom is such a gift.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.