The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.