This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

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.

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.