Quote #45

'In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.'
  2. 'In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.'
  3. 'In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.'
  4. 'In the clock's over-loud ticking we hear the mockery of light-years for the span of our existence.'
  5. 'In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.'
  6. 'In the end the tough guys are the truely effeminate ones, who need the weaklings as their victims in order not to admit that they are like…
  7. '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 stra…
  8. 'In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.'

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