Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
“The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good.… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
