Quote #22

'Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'Every undistorted relationship, perhaps indeed the conciliation that is part of organic life itself, is a gift. He who through consequenti…
  2. 'Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure... The whole of life must look like a job, and by th…
  3. 'Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.'
  4. 'Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.'
  5. 'Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.'
  6. 'Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its l…
  7. 'Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.'
  8. 'Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.'

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