He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or… — 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
