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.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.