In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made … - Theodor Adorno

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The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Theodor Adorno

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

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

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

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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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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

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Pablo Neruda

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

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Jeremy Sisto

I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!

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Ward Connerly

Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices consigned them to another generation - or, perhaps, a term of indefinite duration - of virtual enslavement to the past.

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