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

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.