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

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid...

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid...

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

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

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...

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

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

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...

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay...

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay...

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own...

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own...

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed...

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed...

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization...

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization...

Normality is death.

Normality is death.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

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

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