Theodor Adorno Quotes About Revenge

Quotes about: Revenge

• Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

  Theodor Adorno

  Revenge, Mind, Criticism

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.22, MIT Press

• The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

  Theodor Adorno

  Revenge, Stupidity, Wish

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.122, Verso

• Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

  Theodor Adorno

  Revenge, Home, Independent

  "Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschadigten Leben (Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life)". Book by Theodor Adorno (1951) translated by E. Jephcott (§ 1), 1974.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin