Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members…

Theodor Adorno
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader, p.89, Stanford University Press
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader, p.89, Stanford University Press

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