Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.