Quote by Horkheimer, Max
"Culture becomes kitsch when it ceases to challenge and begins merely to comfort the administered consciousness."
More from Horkheimer, Max
"Reason has become an instrument. There is a tragic irony in the attempt to use the tools of reason for purposes which transcend all reason."
"The more the machinery of thought asserts itself, the more does thinking become reified, a fixed operation, the more does it insist on its equivalence to the machine."
"Art is not religion. It is neither a substitute for it, nor is it able to be one."
"The culture industry not only adapts workers to the system; it educates them in order that the system might work."