The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

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

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

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

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