Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. Pbscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace.

Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.

Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.