While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

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.

Expression that comes from the deepest, darkest place that most of us would rather hide from the rest of the world is the substance that will most likely also deeply affect others.

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

Words can't fix my life.Words can't give me a family.Words can't do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.

I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.