Theodor W. Adorno

Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

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Philosopher, sociologist, and theorist · German · 1903–1969

German philosopher, sociologist, and theorist (1903–1969)

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“A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.”
— Theodor W. Adorno
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“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of ...”
— Theodor W. Adorno
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“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”
— Theodor W. Adorno
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