The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I'll just tell them to relax.
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.
Silence gives answers.