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part of the mechanism of domination

[...] It is part of the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the suffering it produces, and there is a straight line of development between the gospel of happiness ad the construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our own countrymen can convince himself tha…

—p.63 Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
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sententia

the sentnious language of the worker who wants, as a Socialist, to 'learn something'

—p.53 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
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who need the weaklings as their victims

[...] I the end the tough guys are the truly effeminate ones, who need the weaklings as their victims in order not to admit that they are like them. Totalitarianism and homosexuality belong together. I its downfall the subject negates everything which is not of its own kind. [...]

—p.46 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
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which driver is not tempted

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men [...] which driver is not tempted, merely by the power of his engine, to wipe out the vermin of the street, pedestrians, children and cyclists? The movements machines demand of their users already have the violent, hard-hitting, un…

—p.40 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
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glorification of splendid underdogs

[...] In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. [...]

—p.28 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno