Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Theodor AdornoWhen I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.
Theodor AdornoIn his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor AdornoSo the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.
Theodor Adorno