Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity