Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system.

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.