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

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

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

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.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.