Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

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

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe.

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

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