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
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
People know what they want because they know what other people want. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. — 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
