The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

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

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

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

There is no right life in the wrong one.