Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

- Theodor Adorno

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.

- Theodor Adorno

He who integrates is lost.

- Theodor Adorno

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

- Theodor Adorno

The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of…

- Theodor Adorno

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

- Theodor Adorno

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

- Theodor Adorno

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

- Theodor Adorno

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

- Theodor Adorno