"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 the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil."

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Source : Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.94, Verso

Theodor Adorno

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“I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.”
“The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.”
“I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.”

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“The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.”
“People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.”
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
“I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.”

Source : "Wyclif". Book by Anthony Kenny, p. 90, 1985.

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