The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. Theodor Adorno More Quotes by Theodor Adorno More Quotes From Theodor Adorno Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled. Theodor Adorno similarity ability love-is Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation. Theodor Adorno helping advice order The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. Theodor Adorno catastrophe ifs past The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. Theodor Adorno ethics principles firsts The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market. Theodor Adorno blessing doe facts There is no true life within a false life. Theodor Adorno true-life Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage. Theodor Adorno talent rage Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. Theodor Adorno physical-violence domination violence Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil. Theodor Adorno principles evil mind To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet. Theodor Adorno hate peculiar life He who integrates is lost. Theodor Adorno integrating lost People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress. Theodor Adorno differences cutting people Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid. Theodor Adorno enough world Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment. Theodor Adorno luxury cutting life History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Theodor Adorno language doe history Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. Theodor Adorno entwined existence self Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain. Theodor Adorno jobs life looks The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. Theodor Adorno individual mirrors law Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. Theodor Adorno timeless empty life But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor Adorno vain despair life
