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They, the people---The circumstance that intellectuals mostly have to do with intellectuals, should not deceive them into believing their own kind still more base than the rest of mankind. For they get to know each other in the most shameful and degrading of all situations, that of competing supplicants, and are thus virtually compelled to show each other their most repulsive sides.
Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia Last modified: Fri Aug 18 11:39:37 BST 2000 |