He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
Theodor Adorno

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Theodor Adorno

He who integrates is lost.
Theodor Adorno

He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Theodor Adorno

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
Theodor Adorno

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor Adorno

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Theodor Adorno

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
Theodor Adorno

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Theodor Adorno

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor Adorno

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Theodor Adorno

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Theodor Adorno

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Theodor Adorno

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Theodor Adorno

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor Adorno

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
Theodor Adorno

Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor Adorno

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor Adorno

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor Adorno

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno