Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens..

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence..

One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is ….

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will..

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.".

To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to th….

The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation i….

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather….

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics..

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and….

Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian univer….

The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato a….

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

It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony….

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop..

In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it w….

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves..

The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and m….

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction r….

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or m….

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor..