Quote #23

'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 this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.'
  2. 'Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.'
  3. 'Every undistorted relationship, perhaps indeed the conciliation that is part of organic life itself, is a gift. He who through consequenti…
  4. 'Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its l…
  5. 'Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.'
  6. 'Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.'
  7. 'Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.'
  8. 'Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.'

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