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Culture Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
- The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
- Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
- The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
- Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And…
- Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element…
- That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough…
- Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of…
- So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not…
- What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause…
- The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even…
- The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own…
- The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were…
- In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry,…
- What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its…
More Culture Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted… — Erykah Badu
- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
- We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. — Pearl Bailey