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" Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. "

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" Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. "

" None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. "

" Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. "

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

" All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. "

" In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. "

" If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. "

" Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. "

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

Black And White

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

" The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. "

" Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. "

" The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. "

" He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. "

" For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. "

" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

" When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. "

" Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. "

" The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. "

" True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. "

" Life has become the ideology of its own absence. "

" Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. "

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

" The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. "

" In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. "

" Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. "

Self-Discipline

" No emancipation without that of society. "