Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
Theodor AdornoIn his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor AdornoThe power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
Theodor AdornoThe usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.
Theodor Adorno