Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.- Theodor Adorno
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
