Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.