Theodor Adorno Quotes on Freedom
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'Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.'
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'No emancipation without that of society.'
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'Perhaps the true society will grow tired of development and, out of freedom, leave possibilities unused, instead of storming under a confused compulsion to the conquest of strange stars.'
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'The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good old days. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physical demythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, roofless wandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right to walk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror.'
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'The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.'