It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.