'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 does not want to.'

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

'The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.'

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

'A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.'

But here I stop-short of any deterministic speculation that attributes specific behaviors to the possession of specific altruist or opportunist genes. Our gene…

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that coul…