Abstract Quote by Theodor Adorno Download Open image “In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.” — Theodor Adorno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstract Conception Concrete Responsibility Universal
“Responsibility is not an attribute, it is the “substance” of human existence. It contains everything..., [it is] that which distinguishes man from all other… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Personal responsibility for everything is the hallmark of an enlightened being. If you blame others, bad luck or the Universe/God for your difficulties, you… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion posed arbitrarily.” — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The failure of individual responsibility must be compensated for by a collective response and the consequences of such a failure at the collective level… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Further, this human responsibility is in the first instance ‘not...a task but a gift,...not law but grace’. It expresses itself in ‘believing, responsive love’… — John Stott 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
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
![“Responsibility is not an attribute, it is the “substance” of human existence. It contains everything..., [it is] that which distinguishes man from all other creatures…’ (p.50). Therefore ‘if responsibility be eliminated, the whole meaning of human existence disappears’ (p.258).” quote by John Stott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/12a/john-stott-1926_human-existence_responsibility-is-not-an-attribute-it-is_2278859.jpg)
