Horkheimer, Max

"Gratitude is dangerous; it reconciles us to injustice."

"The reproduction of life becomes the reproduction of domination."

"Reason can turn against itself and become unreason."

"The machinery of exchange reduces all quality to quantity."

"Fear binds society together more effectively than love."

"Power conceals itself in the appearance of rationality."

"Work has become the primary form of subjection."

"The content of consciousness is largely determined by its form."

"Humor is the weapon of the powerless."

"Nature and society are increasingly indistinguishable."

"Technology is not neutral but embodies the will to dominate."

"The suppression of particularity is the price of enlightenment."

"Justice requires the negation of the existing order."

"Strength is not the ability to impose but to resist."

"The pursuit of freedom must begin with the critique of reason itself."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the end of domination."

"Imagination is the faculty most threatened by total administration."

"War reveals the inner logic of modern civilization."

"Art that reconciles us to the present is not really art."

"The individual personality is an illusion of late capitalism."

"Education should teach students to think against the current."

"Money is the medium through which all values become commensurable."

"Literature preserves the memory of what has been repressed."

"Change requires the will to imagine what does not yet exist."

"Hope lies in negative dialectics, not in positive affirmation."

"Courage is the refusal to accept the administered world as inevitable."

"Dreams deferred become nightmares."

"Kindness in an unjust world is complicity."

"History reveals the catastrophe beneath the appearance of progress."

"Perseverance without hope is a form of despair."