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 need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.