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> [Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/auschwitz-begins-wherever-someone-looks-at-a-slaughterhouse-and/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

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## More by Theodor Adorno

> [Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/proletarian-language-is-dictated-by-hunger-the-poor-chew-words-to/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/no-harm-comes-to-man-from-outside-alone-dumbness-is-the-objective/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-memory-time-recollection-as/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-power-of-the-culture-industry-s-ideology-is-such-that-conformity/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-man-for-whom-time-stretches-out-painfully-is-one-waiting-in-vain/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/everybody-must-have-projects-all-the-time-the-maximum-must-be/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/it-is-not-the-office-of-art-to-spotlight-alternatives-but-to-resist/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-paradise-offered-by-the-culture-industry-is-the-same-old-drudgery/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-sublime-is-only-a-step-removed-from-the-ridiculous/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-triumph-of-advertising-in-the-culture-industry-is-that-consumers/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/when-all-actions-are-mathematically-calculated-they-also-take-on-a/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/a-thinking-that-approaches-it-objects-openly-rigorously-is-also-free/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/none-of-the-abstract-concepts-comes-closer-to-fulfilled-utopia-than/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-creed-of-evil-has-been-since-the-beginnings-of-highly/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

> [The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-most-powerful-person-is-he-who-is-able-to-do-least-himself-and/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

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