"The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality."

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Source : "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1982.

Max Horkheimer

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“You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before.”
“We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there's nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless.”

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“He sighed deeply; to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see, no pretentions to beauty or even good looks, was something he had not expected. But falling in love, he had always understood, was unpredictable, and, as far as he was concerned, irrevocable.”

Source : "Love & Marriage".
“Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.”
“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on.”
“Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.”
“It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.”
“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”

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