When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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

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

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.