Quote #15

'Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane…
  2. 'Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.'
  3. 'Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.'
  4. 'But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.'
  5. 'And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but …
  6. 'Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.'
  7. 'An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of diff…
  8. 'Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.'

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