Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.