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• In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

  Theodor Adorno

  Religious, Attitude, Army

  "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda". "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader", 1982.

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• Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

  Theodor Adorno

  World, Enough

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• There is no true life within a false life.

  Theodor Adorno

  True Life

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• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

  Theodor Adorno

  Technology, Men, Gestures

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.40, Verso

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• It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

  Theodor Adorno

  Lying, Thinking, Ideas

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• Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

  Theodor Adorno

  Obsolete

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.217, Verso

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• But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Despair, Vain

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.167, Verso

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• That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Differences, Culture

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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• Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Jobs, Looks

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• For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Men, Emigration

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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

  Theodor Adorno

  Distance, People, Elimination

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.41, Verso

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• He who matures early lives in anticipation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Anticipation, Early Life

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.161, Verso

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• Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Poetry, Auschwitz

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.15, Stanford University Press

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• In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

  Theodor Adorno

  Analysis, Psycho, Exaggeration

  1966 Negative Dialectics.

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• Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

  Theodor Adorno

  People, Purpose, Awareness

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.41, Verso

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• Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

  Theodor Adorno

  Evil People, People, Evil

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.190, Verso

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• In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

  Theodor Adorno

  Country, Pain, Looks

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

  Theodor Adorno

  Objectivity, Suffering, Needs

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• Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

  Theodor Adorno

  Organization, Insane, Destruction

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

  Theodor Adorno

  People, Hatred, Might

  "Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life". Book by Theodor Adorno, 1951.

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• Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

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  Art, Relation, Inner Life

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• True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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• The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

  Theodor Adorno

  Tasks, Powerlessness

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.47, Stanford University Press

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• Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

  Theodor Adorno

  Talent, Rage

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.109, Verso

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• Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mother, Lying, Shelter

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.112, Verso

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