Quote by Theodor Adorno
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property:

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. – Theodor Adorno

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

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno

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

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As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act. – Barack Obama

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The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. – Denis Diderot

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Truth is powerful and it prevails. – Sojourner Truth

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – Rebecca West

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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. – Thomas Aquinas

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