The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

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

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

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