It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.