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

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.