The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.