Theodor Adorno Quotes
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
No emancipation without that of society.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Normality is death.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
