MintQuotes

“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.” — Theodor Adorno

“The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.” — Theodor Adorno

“When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.” — Theodor Adorno

“Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.” — Theodor Adorno

“But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.” — Theodor Adorno

“He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.” — Theodor Adorno