The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

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.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

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.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.