The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

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.

Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.

Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being of the other person who is called lover or beloved.

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

You can get what you desire and in just the measure of that desire.