Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
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 means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood. . . Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.
The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.
When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.