Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

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

Intelligence is a moral category.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.