Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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.

You have a right to have a godly anger to bring about change, godliness and justice in the society.

What is a goal without a purpose?

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.