Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

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.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

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.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

There is no true life within a false life.