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.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.