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" Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. "

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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. "

" Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. "

" Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. "

" To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. "

" When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. "

" But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. "

" No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. "

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

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

" The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. "

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

" Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. "

" All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. "

" Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. "

" The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. "

" Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. "

" Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. "

" Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. "

" The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. "

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

" The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. "

" He who integrates is lost. "

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

" 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. "

" In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. "

" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "