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

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

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.

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

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.