Famous Quotes

"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."

Theodor Adorno on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Theodor Adorno

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

• "True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

• "No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."

• "Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

• "The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."