The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

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.

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Throw me to the wolves &I'll return leading the pack

Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp... but you'll function.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.

Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.

If there is one thing I am, it's always right.