'The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.'

'The division of the world into important and unimportant matters, which has always served to neutralize the key phenomena of social injustice as mere exceptio…

'The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.'

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

I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion. In the film there was a scene in which somebody asked …

When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.

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