Theodor Adorno Quotes About Auschwitz

Quotes about: Auschwitz

• Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Animal, Thinking, Holocaust

• Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Writing, Suffering

• Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Poetry, Auschwitz

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.15, Stanford University Press

• It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

  Theodor Adorno

  Lying, Thinking, Ideas

• It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

  Theodor Adorno

  Auschwitz

  "How Poetry Can Be Written After Auschwitz" by Billy Mills, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2011.

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