[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

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.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

But, those who did good to Allah and the people, Allah will give them reward by bestowing upon them His grace.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.

A person who has no friends, lives only half way.

I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There's never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me