It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

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

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

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.