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

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.