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Theodor Adorno

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

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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 natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago. "

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