The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

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.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

Never go for the money. You have to match the job and your values so you can bring your whole self.

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

I demand excellence from the people I work with.

Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.