The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

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.

The truth about true love is that it is endless.

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.