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The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Theodor Adorno
First
Wrong
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Theodor Adorno
Gods
Pleasure
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno
Power
Being
Man
Rules
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno
Discrimination
Tact
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Theodor Adorno
Being
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Theodor Adorno
Work
Quality
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Theodor Adorno
Time
Intention
Suicide
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno
Time
Man
Tomorrow
Waiting
Yesterday
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.
Theodor Adorno
Burden
Credit
Name
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
Theodor Adorno
People
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Theodor Adorno
Catastrophes
Past
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
Theodor Adorno
Eye
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
Theodor Adorno
Choice
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno
Peace
Utopia
Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor Adorno
Intelligence