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Theodor W. Adorno, born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
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Theodor W. Adorno, born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Absence | Asceticism | Control | Fear | People | Position | Power | Question | Rancor | Research | Responsibility | Shame | Speculation | Stupidity | Thinking | Thought | Asceticism | Thought |
Theodor W. Adorno, born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund
The division of the world into important and unimportant matters, which has always served to neutralize the key phenomena of social injustice as mere exceptions, should be followed up to the point where it is convicted of its own untruth. The division which makes everything objects must itself become an object of thought, instead of guiding it.
Theodor W. Adorno, born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund
Anti-Semitism is the rumor about the Jews.
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it — the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
Achievement | Better | Chance | Comfort | Health | Life | Life | Man | Nothing | Object | Qualities | Right | Sympathy | Woman | Work | Worth |
Much can be done by law towards putting women on a footing of complete and entire equal rights with man - including the right to vote, the right to hold and use property, and the right to enter any profession she desires on the same terms as the man... Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
Better | Conservation | Duty | Existence | Exploit | Government | Health | Important | Land | People | Race | Training | Will | Work | Worth | Government |
By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.
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And yet without labor there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
Consecration | Folly | Rule | Stupidity |
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
Conscience | Man | Sound | Stupidity |
The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
Consecration | Rule | Stupidity |
If the world is ever conquered for Christ, it will be by every one doing their own work, filling their own sphere, holding their own post, and saying to Jesus, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Health | Perfection | Virtue | Virtue |