Quotes About Culture

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting point. Pleasure promotes the resignation which it ought to help to forget.

Att lämna sitt språk är som lämna sin själ

Quizá finalmente ese sea el precio de vivir en un país extranjero. No es sólo que vives una vida distinta de la que dejaste atrás. Es que la vida en el extranjero te vuelve extraño.

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

In contrast to the Kantian, the categorical imperative of the culture industry no longer has anything in common with freedom. It proclaims: you shall conform, without instruction as to what; conform to that which exists anyway as a reflex of its power and omnipresence. The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness.

Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

The culture industry is not the art of the consumer but rather the projection of the will of those in control onto their victims. The automatic self-reproduction of the status quo in its established forms is itself an expression of domination.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Der Verfall des Schenkens spiegelt sich in der peinlichen Erfindung der Geschenkartikel, die bereits darauf angelegt sind, daß man nicht weiß, was man schenken soll, weil man es eigentlich gar nicht will. Diese Waren sind beziehungslos wie ihre Käufer.

What we had set out to do was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.

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Relativism is vulgar materialism, thought disturbs the business.

even there, where the rejection of the system is taken for granted and for that reason a lax and cunning conformism of its own has developed.

Reduzidas a pura homenagem, as obras de arte pervertidas e corruptas são secretamente empurradas pelos beneficiados para o meio dos trastes, com os quais são assimiladas. Os consumidores podem se alegrar que haja tanta coisa para ver e ouvir. Praticamente pode-se ter tudo.

Toda "cultura pura" tem causado mal-estar aos porta-vozes do poder

All post-Auschwitz culture, including its urgently needed critique, is garbage.