Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.