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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
Theodor Adorno
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno
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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor Adorno
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When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Theodor Adorno
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The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
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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.
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
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