Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

There is no true life within a false life.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.