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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 Adorno
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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
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The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
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In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
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When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
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The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
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