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

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.