In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.