Happiness without power, wages without work, a home without frontiers, religion without myth. These characteristics are hated by the rulers because the ruled secretly long to possess them. The rulers are only safe as long as the people they rule turn their longed-for goals into hated forms of evil.
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| — | Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (via philosophybits) |
