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In organized groups such as t...

In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

People at the top are closing...

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

By abstaining from all defini...

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

There are no more ideologies ...

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Art as a whole is a riddle. A...

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

When I made my theoretical mo...

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

So the experience of death is...

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

As naturally as the ruled alw...

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The aim of jazz is the mechan...

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Of the world as it exists, it...

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

What human beings seek to lea...

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Freud made the discovery- qui...

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

It is Proust's courtesy to sp...

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

A successful work of art is n...

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

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Those who cannot help ought a...

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The straight line is regarded...

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

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The sublime is only a step re...

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

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The forms of art reflect the ...

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The creed of evil has been, s...

The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Everything about art has beco...

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

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