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.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

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

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity