Theodor Adorno Differences Quotations

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.