Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of… — 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
