The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

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

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

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.