The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

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.

Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.