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

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.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

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