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.

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

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

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

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

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

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.