The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

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.

We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.

If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.

It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it.

It has been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Forget about speech problems just saying the words "brain surgery" sucks the air out of a room.

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.