Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor Adorno

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Theodor Adorno

No emancipation without that of society.
Theodor Adorno

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Theodor Adorno

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno

Normality is death.
Theodor Adorno

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor Adorno

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Theodor Adorno

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Theodor Adorno

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno

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

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

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
Theodor Adorno

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Theodor Adorno

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Theodor Adorno

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
Theodor Adorno

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Theodor Adorno