It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world,… — 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
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. — 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 Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress… — 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 taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
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 Image
