He who integrates is lost.

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

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

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.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.