There is no love that is not an echo.

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.

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.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.

We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

-- So this is the measure of your God's Mercy.-- No. This is the measure of Pharaoh's soul.

Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn’t that all that matters?

I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage.

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.