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Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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

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

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

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

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

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

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

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

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

The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

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