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

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Self-Discipline

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

" If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. "

" Intelligence is a moral category. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. "

" Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. "

" True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. "

" No emancipation without that of society. "

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

" Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. "

" The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. "

" Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. "

" Life has become the ideology of its own absence. "

" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "

" Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. "

" The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. "

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

" In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. "

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

" There is no love that is not an echo. "

" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "