261 Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

The power of the culture industry’s ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

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

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.