Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

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 worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring