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Society 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.
- He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private…
- Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
- Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
- 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…
- He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private…
- No emancipation without that of society.
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi