The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

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.

...a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud.

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.

You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.

I don't think fundamentally we should ban him [Donald Trump], I don't think we can go around doing that.

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.