Auschwitz Quote by Theodor Adorno Download Open image “It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.” — Theodor Adorno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Auschwitz Poetry Writing
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
“After Auschwitz" Anger, as black as a hook, overtakes me. Each day, each Nazi took, at 8: 00 A.M., a baby and sauteed him… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above… — Primo Levi Copy Share
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what… — Primo Levi 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
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I remember that one Holy Week, the magazine I got every Thursday, Anteojito , came with a free poster depicting the Stations of the… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
“I am keenly aware that the security we enjoy is frail, and could easily be disrupted. Secretly, a nagging fear gnaws at me: what… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who… — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
