Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

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

Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.