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F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.
He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch
The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.
Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.
All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.
To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
Discussing external migration issues is impossible without discussing internal migration issues
One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.