Quote #41

'If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.'
  2. 'In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.'
  3. 'Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.'
  4. 'In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.'
  5. 'History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.'
  6. 'In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.'
  7. 'He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his priv…
  8. 'In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.'

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