261 Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

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

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Intelligence is a moral category.