In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison..

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves..

The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of….

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today cap….

He who integrates is lost..

People know what they want because they know what other people want..

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothin….

There is no love that is not an echo..

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar..

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them..

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state..

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people..

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order..

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability..

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality..

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,'….

In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell..

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

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poor….

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy..

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults..