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

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

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

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.