Theodor W. Adorno Quotes
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.
A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.
