Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

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.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.