Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

There is no true life within a false life.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.