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" The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. "

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" There is no love that is not an echo. "

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

" Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. "

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

Self-Discipline

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

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

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

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

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

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

" He who integrates is lost. "

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

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

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

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

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

Black And White

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

" He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. "

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

" In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. "

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

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

" Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. "

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

" He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. "

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

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