None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.