“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
“freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have."
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness"
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available."
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"People know what they want because they know what other people want."
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you."
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"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 W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals."
― Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
"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 W. Adorno (1903-1969)