--- title: "4 Bourgeois Quotes By Theodor Adorno" description: "4 Bourgeois quotes by Theodor Adorno. Plus more from Theodor Adorno and more Bourgeois sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ce/theodor-adorno-1995_advancing_advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-m_57947.jpg" --- > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ce/theodor-adorno-1995_advancing_advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-m_57947.jpg) > [Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/bourgeois-society-is-ruled-by-equivalence-it-makes-the-dissimilar/) [Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/040/theodor-adorno-1995_abstract_bourgeois-society-is-ruled-by-equivalenc_401019.jpg) > [The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-bourgeois-is-tolerant-his-love-for-people-as-they-are-stems-from/) [Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5d/theodor-adorno-1995_bourgeois_the-bourgeois-is-tolerant-his-love-for-p_460714.jpg) > [The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/the-body-s-habituation-to-walking-as-normal-stems-from-the-good/) [Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/theodor-adorno-1995_body_the-body-s-habituation-to-walking-as-nor_1213772.jpg) ## Other authors on Bourgeois - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karl-marx-55237.jpg) Karl Marx 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/karl-marx/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vladimir-lenin-94029.jpg) Vladimir Lenin 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/vladimir-lenin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-louise-bourgeois-61482.jpg) Louise Bourgeois 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/louise-bourgeois/) - [Alejandro Castro Espin 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/alejandro-castro-espin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gustave-flaubert-39717.jpg) Gustave Flaubert 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/gustave-flaubert/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rosa-luxemburg-81224.jpg) Rosa Luxemburg 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/rosa-luxemburg/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-allan-bloom-11693.jpg) Allan Bloom 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/allan-bloom/) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois/theodor-adorno/#itemlist", "name": "4 Bourgeois Quotes By Theodor Adorno", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Theodor Adorno" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-memory-time-recollection-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ce/theodor-adorno-1995_advancing_advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-m_57947.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ce/theodor-adorno-1995_advancing_advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-m_57947.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ce/theodor-adorno-1995_advancing_advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-m_57947.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.” — Theodor Adorno", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. 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