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Those who cannot help ought al...

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 poor are prevented from th...

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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

The dialectic cannot stop shor...

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

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The power of the culture indus...

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The almost insoluble task is t...

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The important thing is not the...

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

On their way toward modern sci...

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The noiseless din that we have...

The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Humanity had to inflict terrib...

Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Advancing bourgeois society li...

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The taboos that constitute a m...

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

It is incumbent upon philosoph...

It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

In the nineteenth century the ...

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

What is or is not the jargon i...

What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

It is one of the basic tenets ...

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

The expression if history in t...

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

In psycho-analysis nothing is ...

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Talent is perhaps nothing othe...

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Fear and destructiveness are t...

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

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