The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

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.

No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have!

[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

Life seems to be busy for most people and if you know you are doing the best you can then there really is nothing more you can do then that.

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.