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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Theodor Adorno
Society
State
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor Adorno
Choices
Freedom
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Theodor Adorno
Art
Right
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Theodor Adorno
Man
Writing
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Theodor Adorno
Life
Despair
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno
Violence
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Theodor Adorno
Art
Work
Crime
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor Adorno
Art
Folk
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
Theodor Adorno
Health
Sickness
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
Theodor Adorno
Destruction
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno
Art
Truth
Lie
Being
Magic
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
Theodor Adorno
Exploitation
Laws
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Theodor Adorno
Age
Individuality
Question
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno
Power
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
Theodor Adorno
Culture