He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
He who integrates is lost.
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
