Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

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.

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.

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

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.