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

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.