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

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

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

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.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject