One Will Only Be Free

The Sickness Of The Individual Is Ultimately Caused By And Sustained By The Sickness Of His Civilization

While It [tolerance] Is More Or Less Quietly And Constitutionally Withdrawn From The Opposition, It Is Made Compulsory Behavior With Respect To Established Policies.

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.

The Neo-conservative Critics Of Leftist Critics Of Mass Culture Ridicule The Protest Against Bach As Background Music In The Kitchen, Against Plato And Hegel, Shelley And Baudelaire, Marx And Freud In The Drugstore. Instead, They Insist On Recognition Of The Fact That The Classics Have Left The Mausoleum And Come To Life Again, That People Are Just So Much More Educated. True, But Coming To Life As Classics, They Come To Life As Other Than Themselves; They Are Deprived Of Their Antagonistic Force, Of The Estrangement Which Was The Very Dimension Of Their Truth.

The Philosopher ... Subjects Experience To His Critical Judgment, And This Contains A Value Judgment Namely, That Freedom From Toil Is Preferable To Toil, And An Intelligent Life Is Preferable To A Stupid Life. It So Happened That Philosophy Was Born With These Values. Scientific Thought Had To Break This Union Of Value Judgment And Analysis, For It Became Increasingly Clear That The Philosophic Values Did Not Guide The Organisation Of Society.