In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. - Theodor Adorno

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Theodor Adorno

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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

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Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

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It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

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

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People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

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It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

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