Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

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

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

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.

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.