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

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

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

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.