It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

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.

Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behaviour. It prevents their behaviour from destroying your heart.

Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.

We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

A business that doesn’t change is a business that is going to die.

In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.

I love the surprise element of being a mom.

Reform, prosperity, and peace, these are major challenges to the United States of America. I don't think I need any on-the-job training. I'm ready to go at it right now.

If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.