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"Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture." — Theodor Adorno
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"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion." — Theodor Adorno
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"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"Horror is beyond the reach of psychology." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"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." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"Intelligence is a moral category." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength." — Theodor W. Adorno
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"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace." — Theodor W. Adorno
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