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

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

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

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.