Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation. Theodor Adorno More Quotes by Theodor Adorno More Quotes From Theodor Adorno The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. Theodor Adorno hardest-hithardestchoices 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 similarityabilitylove-is The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. Theodor Adorno catastropheifspast The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. Theodor Adorno ethicsprinciplesfirsts 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 blessingdoefacts There is no true life within a false life. Theodor Adorno true-life Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage. Theodor Adorno talentrage Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. Theodor Adorno physical-violencedominationviolence 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 principlesevilmind 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 hatepeculiarlife He who integrates is lost. Theodor Adorno integratinglost 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 differencescuttingpeople Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid. Theodor Adorno enoughworld 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 luxurycuttinglife History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Theodor Adorno languagedoehistory Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. Theodor Adorno entwinedexistenceself 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 jobslifelooks The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. Theodor Adorno individualmirrorslaw Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. Theodor Adorno timelessemptylife But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor Adorno vaindespairlife
