Max Horkheimer

"The fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant."

"Thought aspires to be reconciled with all particularity."

"Art is the memory of better things than reality can achieve."

"The more human beings are manipulated in their most intimate impulses, the more serious is the deterioration."

"Society is always trying to grind us down to make us amenable to production."

"Whoever is seriously engaged in the pursuit of peace must abstain from violence."

"Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters."

"Culture industry not only adapts workers to the system; it also trains the system's managers."

"The individual who defends himself against displacement of his drives into socially useful activities becomes asocial."

"Truth is something which cannot be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of the mind."

"Power, not truth, is what the world obeys."

"Hope is the thing that allows human beings to persist, to continue."

"The totalitarian state finds in the preparation of war and in war itself a use for all the officers it needs."

"A human being is not a thing or a substance, determined by nature or reason, but a being only inasmuch as he participates in reason."

"The price of progress is trouble."

"Conformism is not just a problem, it is the problem."

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

"Just as the bourgeoisie creates a world after its own image, we wish to create ours after our own image."

"The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers."

"Reflection is not opposed to direct action but is rather the ground for the meaningful exercise of critical judgment about action."

"Domination is the enemy of all thinking."

"The liberation of humanity is possible only if it is guided by thought."

"Art survives in spite of the culture industry."

"The masses are being integrated into the system while they believe themselves to be rebelling against it."

"Those who are humane are those who refrain from inflicting torture."

"Every attempt to preserve the mind by nourishing it apart from practice is vain."

"The only way out is to go through."

"History teaches us that the ruling powers have always used the most advanced knowledge."

"Reason itself has become an instrument."

"The culture of the masses is a culture of resentment."