Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.
Theodor AdornoThe need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject
Theodor AdornoNone of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno