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

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

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

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

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.