Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

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.

God's everywhere.So remember when you go to the toilet not to laugh.

In a world of limitations, only a fool would hesitate to touch the infinite.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.

Hurried business is bad business.