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" The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. "

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Self-Discipline

" Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. "

" The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. "

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

" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "

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

Black And White

" He who matures early lives in anticipation. "

" Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. "

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

" The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. "

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

" Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. "

" The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. "

" A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. "

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

" Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. "

" An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. "

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

" Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. "

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