Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.