Quote by Theodor Adorno Download Open image “A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.” — Theodor Adorno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man?… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart. — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
My German is not great, I'm not going to lie! I only know a few words. — Emile Smith Rowe Copy Share Image
German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America. — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
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“...the Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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