6 Theodor Adorno Quotes on Morality

Theodor Adorno quotes on morality

9. 'All morality has been modelled on immorality and to this day has reinstated it at every level. The slave morality is indeed bad: it is still the master morality.'

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.'

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

52. 'Intelligence is a moral category.'

91. 'The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.'

129. 'We shudder at the brutalization of life, but lacking any objectively binding morality we are forced at every step into actions and words, into calculations that are by humane standards barbaric, and even by the dubious values of good society, tactless.'