Theodor Adorno

Theodor Adorno
Theodor W. Adornowas a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 September 1903
CountryGermany
distance two people
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.
people purpose awareness
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
cutting differences people
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.
molotov-cocktail people trying
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.
people want knows
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
people humanity culture
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
people impertinence
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
distance people elimination
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
people hatred might
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
successful people done
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.
evil-people people evil
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
people stronger stills
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.
best
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
animals auschwitz begins looks wherever
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.