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

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

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

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.