1. “Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.”
2. “Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertaining may be the most effective mode of learning.”
3. “The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.”
4. “Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.”
5. “The existing liberties and the existing gratification are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.”
6. “There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.”
7. “This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.”
8. “The truth of art lies in its power to break monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”
9. “Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
10. “Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.”
11. “Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.”
12. “One will only be free when one plays and one’ society will become a piece of art.”
13. “Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.”
14. “The present stage redefines the possibilities of man an nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.”
15. “Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.”
16. “The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.”
17. “This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.”
18. “At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.”
19. “The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration and disgust.”
20. “The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.”
