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.

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

However, if "free choice" means more than a small selection between pre-established necessities, and if the inclinations and impulses used in work are other than those preshaped by a repressive reality principle, then satisfaction in daily work is only a rare privilege.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason