I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in a debate with the French Surrealists, many of whom by the 40s and 50s were part of the French communist party apparatus. Many Surrealists eventually argued for instrumentalizing art for political ends. Debord countered, "I don't want to put poetry in the service of revolution. I want to put revolution in the service of poetry".
Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
Nobody gets to pick what life gives them
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. . . . He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. . . . The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.