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

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.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.