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

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

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

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

However, if "free choice" means more than a small selection between pre-established necessities, and if the inclinations and impulses used in work are other than those preshaped by a repressive reality principle, then satisfaction in daily work is only a rare privilege.