He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

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.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.