When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

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.

Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.

With no one to fear him, it seemed at times as if he didn't exist at all.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.

Bad beliefs make bad behavior.