Theodor Adorno Quotes on Communication
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'Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.'
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'He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.'
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'In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.'
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'Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.'
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'Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.'
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'The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.'
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'Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.'
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'To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.'