Theodor Adorno Quotes on Social

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11. 'An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.'

20. 'Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.'

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.'

43. 'In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.'

88. 'The division of the world into important and unimportant matters, which has always served to neutralize the key phenomena of social injustice as mere exceptions, should be followed up to the point where it is convicted of its own untruth. The division which makes everything objects must itself become an object of thought, instead of guiding it.'

93. 'The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.'

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