Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

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.

May every living soul know eternal rest exist.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

A good man? A man who successfully conceals his evil actions

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.

For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.