Quotes by Theodor Adorno

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

No emancipation without that of society.

Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.