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The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
It is the sphere farthest removed from the concreteness of society which may show most clearly the extent of the conquest of thought by society (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
No, you cannot expect people to understand the higher reaches of philosophy. Culture should be taken out of the hands of the dollar chasers. We need a national subsidy for literature. It is disgraceful that artists are treated like peddlers and that art works have to be sold like soap (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don’t you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don’t talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle... The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
The way in which a society organizes the life of its members... Is one project of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune against the expression of protest and refusal (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such transcending analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory (Herbert Marcuse Quotes)
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