Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
Theodor Adorno
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Theodor Adorno
Alone
Resist
Art
Heads
Form
Alternatives
Men
Puts
World
Tyranny
Pistol
Office
Pistols
Courses
Permanently
Course
Spotlight
More quotes by Theodor Adorno
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
Theodor Adorno
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Theodor Adorno
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Theodor Adorno
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
Theodor Adorno
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.
Theodor Adorno
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Theodor Adorno
There is no love that is not an echo.
Theodor Adorno
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Theodor Adorno
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
Theodor Adorno
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 Adorno
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.
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 them.
Theodor Adorno
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
Theodor Adorno
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.
Theodor Adorno
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
Theodor Adorno