No emancipation without that of society.
Quote by Theodor Adorno
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No emancipation without that of society.
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Theodor Adorno Quotes
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
- True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
- Normality is death.
- Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
- Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
- 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 interest.
- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
- If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Best Quotes
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- We come into the world with nothing and the purpose of our lives is to make something out of nothing
- I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
- Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
- The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.