Normality is death.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his...

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his...

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and...

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and...

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

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

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

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own...

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own...

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

There is no love that is not an echo.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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

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

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants....

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants....

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all...

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all...

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

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

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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

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

I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my...

I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...