What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.