Horkheimer, Max

"Health becomes health only when freed from profit motives."

"Adventure that returns unchanged has learned nothing."

"Imagination cannot flourish in wholly administered systems."

"Technology extends the administration into dimensions previously free."

"History written by victors conceals the voices of the vanquished."

"Philosophy that reconciles us to the world betrays its calling."

"Literature keeps alive the memory of what might be."

"Politics without ethics is merely the will to power."

"War begins long before weapons are drawn."

"Motivation provided by fear differs from motivation from conviction."

"Inspiration without grounding in material conditions remains fantasy."

"Relationships structured by economic logic lose their humanity."

"Solitude is possible only for those who can afford it."

"Love that ignores social contradiction cannot sustain itself."

"The culture industry not only adapts to the demands of the masses, but shapes those demands according to its own interests."

"Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and establishing their sovereignty."

"The more the concept of the deity is stripped of anthropomorphic traits, the more it calls for anthropomorphic effort."

"Art is the memory of something we never knew."

"Society's drive for self-preservation has become its greatest threat to preservation."

"The exchange of commodities is the exchange of lies dressed as truths."

"Totalitarianism does not just forbid discrete thoughts, but prevents the very capacity to think discretely."

"Freedom requires the courage to think what you are forbidden to think."

"We must preserve what remains wild and untamed in the human spirit."

"The culture industry transforms all human experiences into standardized packages for consumption."

"Happiness pursued consciously becomes a commodity that inevitably fails to satisfy."

"Authority without truth is merely organized force masquerading as legitimacy."

"The dominated lose everything in their struggle for equality except their chains."

"Philosophy's task is to teach us to think beyond the constraints of administered society."

"Memory is resistance against the forces that would erase the particular for the universal."

"The greatest danger to free thought is not censorship, but the internalization of conformity."