Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.