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

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

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

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

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.