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