The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.

As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.