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

Intelligence is a moral category.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.