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.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

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.

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.