Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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.

Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

I visit Fox News every now and again, and it's nice, because the Eye of Mordor is above the building.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.