'What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.'

'We shudder at the brutalization of life, but lacking any objectively binding morality we are forced at every step into actions and words, into calculations th…

'Whatever the intellectual does, is wrong. He experiences drastically and vitally the ignominious choice that late capitalism secretly presents to all its depe…

'Up to our days a man's membership of the upper or lower classes has been crudely determined by whether or not he accepted money. At times false pride became c…

I have experienced as violence the emergence of the culture of compulsory industrialised joy, which is the companion of consumerism.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales…