Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor AdornoInsane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
Theodor AdornoWhat has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.
Theodor Adorno