The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself,...

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself,...

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...

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...

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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....

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to...

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to...

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...

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one...

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one...

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

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and...

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

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

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at...

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at...

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

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...

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.