Horkheimer, Max

"Patience is the virtue of those who have accepted their powerlessness."

"The commodity form penetrates even into the realm of desire."

"Literature bears witness to what has been suppressed in history."

"Peace requires the dissolution of the mechanisms of domination."

"The present age is characterized by the total reification of consciousness."

"Dreams are the refuge of the unfree."

"Kindness requires an awareness of the other's suffering."

"History is the history of class struggle."

"The autonomy of art depends on its resistance to commerce."

"Change is impossible within the present system of domination."

"Motivation is often the internalization of external compulsion."

"Death is the final proof that life is administered."

"Perseverance in the face of impossible odds is itself a form of freedom."

"Inspiration comes from the recognition of what is absent."

"Solitude is the only escape from the administered world."

"Relationships under capitalism are mediated by exchange."

"Leadership is the capacity to resist being led."

"The health of society is measured by its capacity for self-criticism."

"Adventure is what remains when freedom is denied."

"Beauty is the rupture in the seamless surface of the administered world."

"Science serves power, not truth."

"Music is a language that escapes rationalization."

"Faith in progress is the new mythology."

"Success in modern society means perfect adaptation to its demands."

"Friendship is impossible in a world of competition."

"Family is the mechanism through which domination reproduces itself."

"Time is the constraint within which freedom must operate."

"The suppressed content of culture contains the seeds of its transformation."

"Love is the recognition of the particular in an age of abstraction."

"Life under total administration is a form of slow death."