5 Theodor Adorno Quotes on Freedom

Theodor Adorno quotes on freedom

29. 'Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.'

62. 'No emancipation without that of society.'

70. '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.'

83. '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.'

107. 'The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.'