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.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.