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

'The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscover…

'The decay of giving is morrored in the distressing invention of gift-article, based on the assumption that one does not know what to give because one really d…

'The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good old days. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physical demythologization, free of the spe…

Now, here's the thing you've got to remember. You've got to see this. This is the point. (And Jack Valenti misses this.) Here's the point: Never has it been mo…

It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid....

'Genuine things are those to which commodities and other means of exchange can be reduced, particularly gold. But like gold, genuineness, abstracted as the pro…