"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it." ― Theodor Adorno Topic(s): History More From Theodor Adorno "Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices." "In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew." "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly." More In History "History is always changing."― Aung San Suu Kyi "History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."― Edward Gibbon "Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation’s history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now."― Jim DeMint