Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Theodor AdornoThe human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Theodor AdornoNot only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno