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Quotes from Culture Industry Reconsidered — Theodor Adorno

1903–1969 Germany

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Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

Culture Industry Reconsidered (1963)

The importance of the culture industry in the spiritual constitution of the masses is no dispensation for reflection on its objective legitimation, its essential being, least of all by a science which thinks itself pragmatic.

Culture Industry Reconsidered (1963)

In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.

Culture Industry Reconsidered (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Theodor Adorno (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.