Theodor W. Adorno

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

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

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Normality is death.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

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

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