Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

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.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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