Human beings Quote by Theodor Adorno

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

— Theodor Adorno

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

— Theodor Adorno

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

— Theodor Adorno

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

— Theodor Adorno

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

— Theodor Adorno

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

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

“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

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

— Theodor Adorno

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

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

— Theodor Adorno

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