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

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.