The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune against the expression of protest and refusal.

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

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

This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

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.

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.