Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. – Theodor Adorno
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. – Theodor Adorno
Fascism is itself less ‘ideological’, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. – Theodor Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. – Theodor Adorno
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. – Theodor Adorno
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. – Theodor Adorno
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. – Theodor Adorno
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. – Theodor Adorno
