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

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

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