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

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

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 first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

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

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.