Theodor Adorno

"False needs, which are superimposed on the individual by particular social interests, are mistaken for personal needs."

"The exchange principle, the reduction of human relations to exchange value, is the principle of identity."

"Only exaggeration itself could be trusted to clear a path."

"Art is the promise of happiness."

"The administered world tends toward total administered life."

"Whoever is versed in the jargon of authenticity has already been condemned."

"The crisis of experience lies in the fact that nothing that happens to people is any longer a genuine experience."

"Thought that resists its own reification constitutes its only hope."

"The law of the stronger is operating in capitalism no less than in fascism."

"Identity is the primal form of ideology."

"Art without any connection to the public sphere becomes hermetic and esoteric."

"Authentic artworks are those that successfully resist the culture industry."

"The culture industry has replaced the old bourgeoisie with the totally administered society."

"For the subject there is no return from reification."

"What is new is the silence about what is new."

"The universal conditions of existence in advanced industrial capitalist society have become so specialized that they cannot be addressed by traditional critical thinking."

"Fascism is itself the absolute reification of all culture."

"The critique of culture has become difficult not just because culture itself is reified, but because the critique is possible only at the level of the reified culture."

"Quality becomes merchandise once it enters into the exchange process."

"The distinction between authentic and commodity art is itself commodified."

"Bourgeois art always anticipated the reification of the world."

"Knowledge does not possess the instant efficacy that would satisfy the active individual."

"Even the most extreme consciousness of doom threatened by totalitarianism tends to yield to the culture industry's triviality."

"The totally administered world leaves no remainder."

"Resistance is nothing without organization."

"Freedom is indissolubly linked to enlightenment."

"Art that would shake off the fetishism of commodities is art that renounces itself."

"Domination has its seat not merely in the economy but also in culture and consciousness."

"Negative dialectics is the form of reflection in a reified world."

"The culture industry perpetuates a regression in mass mentality."