Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

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.

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

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.

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.