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

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.