In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.