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

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.

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.