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

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

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

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.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

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